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BY ED KOCH The Durban III Conference is scheduled to be held in New York City on September 21. The two prior Durban conferences—Durban I held in 2001 in Durban, South Africa and Durban II held in 2009 in Geneva, Switzerland— were supposedly called into session to address racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance.
ting it as a full member. Other Republicans, including Mitt Romney and Michele Bachmann, also issued statements condemning Obama’s Middle East policies and supporting Israel. The Associated Press reported Romney accusing Obama of “throwing Israel under the bus.” In his statement, Governor Perry heavily criticized what he dubbed Obama’s attempts at appeasement, saying, “We are indignant that certain Middle Eastern leaders have discarded the principle of direct negotiations between the sovereign nation of Israel and the Palestinian leadership, and we are equally indignant that the Obama Administration’s
t instantly became clear that the conferences had been hijacked by Muslim nations for the purpose of trashing Israel and directing hate at Jews everywhere. The attacks upon Israel and Jews rivaled the worst manifestations of antiSemitism seen anyplace since Hitler’s Nazi Germany engaged in their campaign to dehumanize Jews leading to the Final Solution and the murder of 6 million Jews. The false charges against Israel and worldwide Jewry at Durban I and II have undoubtedly caused safety problems for the Jewish citizens of many nations, particularly in the underdeveloped countries of the world seeking the favor of the oil rich Arab countries. Durban III undoubtedly will have the same kind of hate-filled rhetoric directed at both Israel and Jews everywhere. Of that I have no doubt. Today, across the world, anti-Semitism is rising in countries such as Great Britain, France and Russia and increasing in Scandinavia and elsewhere in the European Union as well. Many of these countries seeking lucrative
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Texas governor and Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry addresses the crowd at the W Hotel in Manhattan, alongside Jewish community leaders. On the left is newly-elected Congressman Bob Turner (R-NY). UN recognize the Palestinian state by admitBY TOVA KRAUSZ Texas Governor Rick Perry, who has embarked on a bid for the presidency in 2012, held a press conference on Tuesday at the W Hotel in Manhattan’s Union Square. His speech addressed the present situation facing Israel with regards to the Palestinians’ unilateral bid for statehood. ccording to AFP, this is the governor’s first major foreign policy address since rising to the top of the field of Republican White House hopefuls. Perry insisted that the U.S. government should cut funding to the United Nations and Palestinian territories and close the DC offices of the Palestine Liberation Organization should the
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Rishon Lezion Accepts Invitation to Turkey Israeli Sephardic Chief Rabbi accepts an invitation to visit Istanbul-based theologian Adnan Oktar in hopes of restoring diplomatic ties BY CHANA YA'AR Israeli Sephardic Chief Rabbi Shlomo Moshe Amar has accepted an invitation to Turkey for interfaith talks aimed at defusing tensions between the two nations. he Rishon Lezion agreed Wednesday to travel to Istanbul as a guest of Turkish theologian and philosopher Adnan Oktar. Rabbi Amar accepted the invitation during talks held at his office in Jerusalem with Oktar's two emissaries, Dr. Oktar Babuna and Dr. Cihat Gundogdu. In addition, the Chief Rabbi expressed interest in the Hebrew translation of Oktar's book The Evolution Deceit, and sent in return a gift of his own book, entitled Genesis, dealing with his views on fossils, “to emphasize the importance he gives to preaching Creation.” No date for the trip has been set. The two envoys, who arrived in Israel on Sunday, met earlier in the week with Deputy Prime Minister Eli Yishai, chairman of the Sephardic religious Shas party. Yishai was also invited for talks with Adnan Oktar in Turkey, and according to Babuna, is consid-
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ering the offer. Speaking with Arutz Sheva during their stay in Jerusalem, Gundogdu said it was hoped that an interfaith dialogue could bypass the current political dispute and “relieve the tension.” During their talks with Yishai, the two emissaries said the Mavi Marmara flotilla clash in May 2010 was responsible for much of the current tension between Jerusalem and Ankara. The Shas minister wanted to know if he would be asked to apologize on behalf of the Israeli government for the deaths of nine Turkish IHH terror activists on the vessel who were killed during their attack on IDF navy commandos. The Ankara government has demanded that Israel apologize for the deaths, compensate the families and dismantle its blockade, which was created to prevent the smuggling of weapons by terrorists into Gaza. Israel has expressed regret and offered to compensate the families but refuses to apologize for killing armed terrorists who attacked first, and who were carrying no humanitarian aid on their ship. Yishai will not be asked or expected to apologize, Arutz Sheva was told. However,
Oktar made it clear in his response to Arutz Sheva that he believes it is in Israel's best interest to issue an apology. “I cannot decide on behalf of the nation of Israel, of course. But my personal opinion is that an apology should be made. Apology is a reasonable act; it is courtesy, a beauty. It is not something degrading, not a humiliation. It is a graceful attitude. We recommend the apology and compensation so as to calm the tension and at least balance matters. “But this is our belief... Ultimately something to make up for the situation needs to be done,” he said. “However Israel decides regarding the apology, we believe that the visit to Istanbul and having meetings with the Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar and Interior Minister Eli Yishai here will help to reduce the tension. “With this occasion we would like to express our compassion, love and respect for the Jewish people. And we would like to state our common beliefs and common goals. However, according to our belief, there is no other solution besides King Mashiach in this age. There will be discussions and meetings; however the outcome of the meetings will not resolve the matter entirely. The ultimate
Dr. Oktar Babuna, Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar, Dr. Cihat Gundogdu (courtesy of Harun Yahya organization) solution will be King Mashiach whom all parties will be pleased with his decisions.” Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin, Likud faction head Ze'ev Elkin, MK Nissim Ze'ev and a number of other high-level officials also met with the two envoys, who are set to return to Istanbul at the end of the week. WWW.ISRAELNATIONALNEWS.COM/
Interfaith Vigil to Seek Release of American Held in Cuban Prison The Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, in conjunction with the New York JCRC, NY Board of Rabbis, JCPA, JFNA, and community leaders, is holding an interfaith vigil to call for the release of Alan Gross, an U.S. citizen currently being held prisoner in Cuba on dubious charges of espionage. he vigil is planned for Friday, September 23, at 9:30 am in front of the Cuban Mission to the UN (315
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Lexington Avenue, between 38th and 39th Street). Gross, an American Jew, is being incarcerated in a Cuban prison for alleged “actions against the integrity of the State” after having established internet access for the local Jewish community. A simultaneous vigil will be held in Washington D.C. at the Cuban Interests Section, organized by the JCRC of Greater Washington and the Interfaith Conference of Metropolitan Washington. Members of the Gross family will partic-
ipate in both vigils, where event organizers plan to present Cuban authorities with the results of a national online petition drive containing thousands of signatures in support of Mr. Gross’ freedom. Mr. Gross has been held almost two years, during which time he lost 100 pounds as his health deteriorated. A Cuban court upheld his conviction in March and reaffirmed a 15-year sentence. Richard Stone, Chairman, and Malcolm Hoenlein, Executive Vice Chairman of the Conference of Presidents, said, “We call on
people of all faiths to unite in prayer and solidarity with Alan Gross and his family. We will stand together on Friday and call for an end to Alan’s continued imprisonment. Alan’s release on humanitarian grounds is long overdue.” Thousands of people have endorsed a petition for Mr. Gross’ immediate release. The petition can be accessed at www.jcouncil.org/gross . The Friday morning vigil is open to all interested parties.
Demonstrations outside UN Protest Palestinian Unilateral Statehood Bid; Jewish Activists Arrested for “Disorderly Conduct”
BY DANIEL PEREZ AND FERN SIDMAN Despite the rainy weather, dozens of pro-Israel activists, led by Rabbi Avi Weiss of the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale, came to voice their opposition to the Palestinian Authority’s counterproductive unilateral bid for statehood at the UN this week. The protest was coordinated by Amcha—the Coalition for Jewish Concerns (also founded by Weiss), and Americans For a Safe Israel (AFSI). n his comments to the assembled crowd, Rabbi Weiss declared the United Nations to be “the epitome of evil, a den of iniquity,” noting the difficulties the State of Israel has historically faced, with a Palestinian “peace partner” whose actions demonstrate a profound disinterest in peace. “Peace is achieved through face-to-face negotiations. The Palestinians have jettisoned this notion,” he said. Weiss predicted that if the UN proceeded in endorsing the unilateral creation of a Palestinian state, it could lead to an escalation of violence in the region. “If there is violence in the Middle East, the United Nations will be the ones responsible for this,” the rabbi warned. “The blood that will be spilled will be on their hands.” The assembled crowd, waving Israeli and American flags, and signs with bearing slogans like “UN: Vote no to a terror-backed Palestinian state,” listened intently to Rabbi Weiss’s oratory.
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“Am Yisrael is a small people, but we have the ability to speak truth to power, and be the voice of moral righteousness,” said Weiss. He and many other protestors came together to block traffic to the United Nations Headquarters in an effort to bring attention to their cause. Glenn Richter (press advisor and spokesman for Amcha-CJC) also addressed the crowd. Referring to the impending statehood bid, Richter declared that “The United Nations will be responsible for creating a terrorist Palestinian state on Israel’s border.” Also among the distinguished crowd of activists was Rabbi Joseph Potasnik, Executive Vice President of the New York Board of Rabbis. Potasnik explained that “(Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud) Abbas is trying to be a hero among his people by isolating and avoiding Israel .” Adding that one “can’t make peace when you behave like this.” Ultimately, the protestors’ act of civil disobedience was met by an anticipated police response, with officers conducting peaceful arrests. Weiss declared that “If the New York City police really ‘got it,’ they wouldn’t be arresting us today; they would be arresting Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad for the murder of countless people in his own country … He is a demagogue, a terrorist, and a murderer.” Those arrested on the scene included Rabbi Avi Weiss, Glenn Richter, Helen Freedman (executive director of AFSI), and Cheryl Lewin (AFSI coordinator in Chicago), Miriam Prince and Sarah Rosenbaum. They were brought to the Defense News
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NYPD’s 17th Precinct on charges of disorderly conduct. While all of the above was taking place, a small contingent of the ostensibly Jewish, anti-Israel faction Neturei Karta held their own demonstration across the street. The “chasidic” counter-demonstrators waved Palestinian flags, and held signs proclaiming that “All of Palestine should be under Palestinian sovereignty,” and “Read the Talmud, Jews in exile are forbidden to have their own state,” apparently unaffected by the irony of bearded, black-hatted, self-professed rabbis essentially telling Jews to know their place. The detained activists were released from police custody by approximately 12:30 PM. They were met by a busload of students from the SAR Academy in Riverdale. The bus had been held up in traffic, according to reports. Seizing the opportunity, Rabbi Weiss held a mini-rally on the spot. At the impromptu event, Weiss at spoke to the students about the moral obligation to stand up against moral depravity, having courage to condemn evil. He called on all young people, Jewish and non-Jewish alike, to engage in their civic responsibility in speaking out for the truth. Several additional demonstrations are planned by other organizations, including the Christian Zionist association Eagles’ Wings (on Wednesday) and the Jewish Israel advocacy group StandWithUs (Thursday). All of these are in advance of Mahmoud Abbas’ speech, scheduled for Friday, and his subsequent application for official recognition of a state to be known as Palestine.\
Rabbi Avi Weiss, national president of Amcha-Coalition for Jewish Concerns, in a NYC police paddy wagon,handcuffed but still holding on to his sign with his teeth. Rabbi Weiss led a Tuesday, 9/20/11 civil disobedience protest blocking traffic to the UN, stating there could be no 'business as usual' at the world body if it supported the Palestinian unilateral declaration of statehood, welcomed Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and excoriated Israel at its Durban III conference. Five others besides Rabbi Weiss were arrested, and must appear in court on December 5th. Photo by Glenn Richter
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Yesha Protests Establishment of Palestinian State
JEWISH ACTIVISTS STAGED PEACEFUL PROTESTS IN JUDEA AND SAMARIA IN OPPOSITION OF THE PA STATEHOOD BID AT THE UN THIS WEEK BY GAVRIEL QUEENANN Hundreds of Jewish residents in Judea and Samaria staged peaceful demonstrations near Arab villages in the region to show opposition to the PA statehood bid at the United Nations this week. he IDF has been calling up reservists with experience in Judea and Samaria to bolster forces in the region due to concerns mass protests of local Arabs planned by officials in Ramallah will turn violent. Samaria Regional Council head Gershon Meskika told reporters, "We are marching here today with joy and head up to tell us and the world. Israel lives!" At Itamar, where five members of the Fogel family were brutally murdered in March, about 400 protesters gathered and marched to junction south of Nablus, led by Mesika and Chairman of the Friends of Samaria, Benny Katzover. "We start walking from here to remind us all of the source of trouble, the Oslo Accords, which opened the door to terrorism and murder," one of the participants said. Meanwhile, several dozen protesters marched from the community Beit El to Ramallah, the seat of the Palestinian Authority. Leading the march were MK Michael Ben Ari (National Union), nationalist activist
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Protest march by Friends of Yesha. Itamar Ben Gvir, and Chairman of the Friends of Benjamin Itzik Fees. "We are delivering a message here to Netanyahu: 'You have no permission to give any 'generous concessions'! Nothing belongs to you!" Ben Ari declared. "The Land of Israel belongs to the Nation of Israel‌ to my grandfather and your grandfather‌ to my grandson and your grandson. And you have no permission to go to some terrorist in a suit and allow him to establish a terrorist state here," Ben Ari added. The third march was from Kiryat Arba into Hebron. Leading the march was nationalist activist Baruch Marzel. Security officials said the demonstrations were peaceful and concluded without incident. WWW.ISRAELNATIONALNEWS.COM
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As Netanyahu Faces World, No Solidarity from Livni AS THE PRIME MINISTER MAKES HIS WAY TO THE UN, OPPOSITION LEADER OFFERS NOTHING BUT THREATS AND SCORN BY GIL RONEN Opposition Leader Tzipi Livni (Kadima) delivered a speech dripping with scorn for Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu Monday as he prepared to face a unilateral declaration of statehood by the Palestinian Authority (PA), and as the IDF prepared for a possible wave of violence.
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ivni accused Netanyahu of falsely claiming that "the world is against us," that there is anti-Semitism and that Israel can't do anything about it. "It’s true that there is a revolution in Egypt and we do not know what the result will be," she elaborated. "It's true that there is anti-Semitism in the world. So what?" "Israel's friends no longer understand Israel's policy and they do not know what it wants," she accused. "I am sorry to say it, but they do not believe the Israeli prime minister. They under-
stand that if someone says 'two states' and is not willing to take a single step to make that happen, this arouses suspicion. We are the ones who pay that terrible price." Livni said she opposes the PA's unilateral bid and will support the prime minister if he renews negotiations with the PA. "It is not too late to stop the bad process we are in," she said. "It requires courage to reach a decision. I am in doubt, but maybe this week, Netanyahu can rise above his problematic coalition and reach the right decision. If not, we will take them when the day comes."
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FRUSTRATION IN BINYAMIN: WE DESTROY – THEY BUILD AS ISRAEL DESTROYS HOMES IN MIGRON, THE PA CONTINUES A MASSIVE
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CONSTRUCTION PROJECT FIVE MINUTES AWAY Israel recently destroyed three homes in Migron, and the government is planning the demolition of several more homes in accordance with a Supreme Court order. In the meantime, the Palestinian Authority continues a massive building project just minutes away.
Netanyahu this week. “I want to share with you something that residents of Ateret experience each day,” wrote Motti Houminer. “The city of Rawabi is being built 24 hours a day opposite our windows. There, they do not need building permits, and they do not need to worry that someone will come in the middle of the night and destroy anything, because that would enflame Mideast tensions, G-d forbid… “While here, in Ateret, we need to ‘give our
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______________________ “The minute you decide, like Arik Sharon, that Jews have finished playing a role in Samaria, for the sake of an agreement with Abu Mazen that is worth less than the paper you sign on, you’ll simply destroy our homes with no pangs of conscience, as happened in Migron.” ______________________ ly like you, unfortunately, you will expel us from our homes without batting an eyelid. “The minute you decide, like Arik Sharon, that Jews have finished playing a role in Samaria, for the sake of an agreement with Abu Mazen that is worth less than the paper you sign on, you’ll simply destroy our homes with no pangs of conscience, as happened in Migron.”
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September 23, 2011
Coupons Promise a Bit of Dignity for Needy Disabled IDF Soldiers
INSTEAD OF MAKING THEM WAIT ON LINE FOR FOOD PACKAGES, MATZDEIM WILL PROVIDE SUPERMARKET COUPONS FOR DISABLED IDF SOLDIERS
Matzdeim Tent BY DAVID LEV There's a great spirit of generosity among Israelis, and indeed all Jews, especially around holiday time. Large groups of volunteers pool their resources around Rosh Hashanah and Passover to make sure that needy folks have enough, so that they, too, can share in the holiday spirit abroad in the land. ut there's a bit of a dark lining to the silver cloud of generosity, as in the case of most non-profit organizations that distribute food packages. The most efficient way to go about distributing the packages of bread, wine, meat, chicken, vegetables, and goodies for the children, most organizations find – especially when they are inundated with requests for aid – is by giving the packages out at a central distribution spot, where clients gather and wait on line for their package. Some organizations do try to deliver their packages anonymously, but logistics don't always allow it – and recipients who are in real need are grateful for any help they can get. But at least one group of needy recipients – injured IDF soldiers – will no longer have to stand on line, if Michael Hershkowitz of the “Matzdeim” organization has his way. “The custom of giving out food packages is a very praiseworthy one and shows how the Jewish people are connected and care for one another,” he says. “But on the other hand, it is a bit demeaning for people to have to stand on such a line.” Instead, says Hershkowitz, his organization plans to give out supermarket gift coupons - “and this way, injured soldiers who have been through enough already will instead be able to stand with dignity on the supermarket checkout line.” Distributing prepaid coupons for use in supermarkets and other retail stores is another longstanding Israeli tradition, with employers providing workers with a pre-holiday gift in order to help them alleviate holiday expenses. Hershkowitz's organization has been raising money for months in order to do the same. “It's clearly harder to raise money for a
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project like this,” he says. If Matzdeim were giving out food packages, they would be able to solicit a lot more donors, since products are a lot easier to obtain than cash. But it's worth the effort, he says. “I don't wish on
______________________ “Injured soldiers who have been through enough already wil be able to stand with dignity on the supermarket checkout line.” ______________________ anyone that they are reduced to the point where they have to receive charity to make ends meet. It's a difficult thing for anyone, but for an injured soldier, it's impossible – and unfair.” What really bothers Hershkowitz is that there are soldiers in this situation in the first place. “This is the government's job, but of course injured soldiers, like so many others in this country, are victims of budget cuts and shortfalls.” Among Matzdeim's activities, says Hershkowitz, is marshaling lawyers to represent IDF soldiers who have been denied benefits they believe they have coming. The organization also joined in with tent protesters in Tel Aviv this summer, demanding a better shake for disabled soldiers. “We started the organization about four years ago, and in that time, myself and the three others that are the main volunteers have raised large sums of money for soldiers,” Hershkowitz says, stressing that all money donated to Matzdeim goes straight to those in need, with no money set aside for office or other expenses. “Not only that – over the past four years we have spent over NIS 60,000 of our own money in helping out our fellow disabled soldiers.” With that, Hershokowitz says, he is proud to be able to do what he does. “We have 500 members – and 5,000 likes on Facebook – and we are going to make sure that every one of the disabled soldiers we serve gets at least NIS 500 for the holidays.” All, of course, are invited to lend a hand, if they can, Hershkowitz adds. WWW.ISRAELNATIONALNEWS.COM
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Montenegro to Grant Judaism Status as Official State Religion JEWISH LIFE IS ABOUT TO REVIVE IN MONTENEGRO, WITH A GOVERNMENT DECISION TO GRANT JUDAISM THE STATUS OF AN OFFICIAL STATE RELIGION BY CHANA YA'AR Jewish life is about to revive in Montenegro, with a government decision to grant Judaism the status of an official state religion, joining the current religions of Orthodox Christianity, Islam and Roman Catholicism. The country, located in the Balkans, is bordered by BosniaHerzegovina, Serbia and Albania. It is bordered on the west by the Adriatic Sea. he decision came after a meeting between Montenegrin President Filip Vujanovic, Prime Minister Igor Luksic and Parliamentary President Ranko Krivokapic with Israel Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger, Chabad-Lubavitch emissary Rabbi Yoel Kaplan and others. “I will do everything I can to encourage this issue, whether through legislation, or amending the existing regulations,” the prime minister told Rabbi Metzger, who was accompanied by local Jewish leadership and a delegation from the Rabbinical Council of Europe (RCE). Yasha Afandri, president of the Jewish community, welcomed the declarations by the Montenegro officials. “This is truly an important and exciting step taken by the leaders of Montenegro and will certainly provide a boost for the development of our community and raises Jewish pride in our
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Israeli Chief Rabbi Metzger, PM Luksic, Rabbi Kaplan from Montenegro. wonderful country,” Alfandri said. There are approximately 150 known Jews out of an estimated population of about 1,000, according to a report posted on the Lubavitch.com website. At present, Judaism has the status of a non-governmental organization (NGO). Foreign Jewish business interests and Jewish tourism to the region is growing, and the region is becoming a focus for new investment from overseas – bringing with it the potential for an increased Jewish population, at the very least on the holidays and during the Sabbath. This will increase the need for Jewish support services in the form of kosher food and Jewish education. ISRAELNATIONALNEWS.COM
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YOUNG ISRAEL MOVEMENT NAMES SENIOR DIRECTOR OF BRANCH SERVICES The National Council of Young Israel (NCYI) announces that Rabbi Bini Maryles has joined its professional staff as the Senior Director of Branch Services. ccording to NCYI Executive Vice President Rabbi Pesach Lerner, the Executive Board of the National Council of Young Israel created this new position in order to better enhance and expand its existing services to the approximately 150 branch synagogues nationwide. After an exhaustive search and numerous interviews, the NCYI Executive Board and its Board of Directors selected Rabbi Maryles to fill the position. "One of the main directives of the National Council of Young Israel is to service its branches, and our various departments have done an exceptional job interacting with our branch synagogues and serving as a valuable resource for our branch leadership and members," said NCYI President Shlomo Z. Mostofsky. "In our desire to continue improving the programmatic assistance that we currently offer our synagogues, the Young Israel's Board of Directors established a mechanism whereby we can further reach out to our branches and coordinate new and exciting initiatives and programs for our member synagogues and their congregants." "Rabbi Bini Maryles is a dynamic and talented individual who has a proven track record in the Jewish communal world," continued Mostofsky. "With his extensive background in Jewish organizational life and education, Rabbi Maryles is the perfect individual to help the National Council of Young
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Rabbi Bini Maryles has joined The National Council of Young Israel as the Senior Director of Branch Services. Israel achieve its goal of fostering an even stronger and more substantive bond with our branch synagogues in the months and years ahead." Rabbi Bini Maryles has been actively engaged in Jewish community service and leadership for over a decade. He received his rabbinic ordination from the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary and has a bachelor's degree in accounting and a master's degree in secondary education.
Rabbi Maryles has been teaching in both formal and informal settings and has earned a reputation of engaging his students and audiences, regardless of their level of expertise and knowledge. He has a deep emotional tie to the study of Tanach and Israel and regularly lectures for the National Council of Young Israel on Middle East related topics. Rabbi Maryles has had the distinction of serving as the Rabbi of the Young Israel of North Woodmere, NY and as the Director of the Rabbi Joseph and Pepa Karasick Department of Synagogue Services of the Orthodox Union. Most recently, Rabbi Maryles served as a member of the Judaic Studies faculty at Ramaz Middle School. He resides in North Woodmere, NY with his wife, Naomi and their four children. "Over the past century, the National Council of Young Israel has been one of the preeminent organizations in the Jewish world and has ensured that there are beautiful and vibrant synagogues in communities throughout North America," said Rabbi Maryles. "I grew up in Young Israel. I learned how to daven, lain and shoot jumpshots at the Young Israel of Flatbush. Much
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Ishmael Khaldi to Address New York Students Ishmael Khaldi, Middle East and Arab Affairs Advisor to the Foreign Ministry, and the nation's first high-ranking Muslim diplomat in the Israeli Foreign Service, will be in New York on September 22-23 and September 26, 2011 to speak to students at Baruch College Hillel, NYU Hillel Bronfman Center-Gesher Group, Brooklyn College Hillel, Queens College Hillel, and Columbia Hillel. haldi is appearing as a speaker on behalf of Caravan for Democracy (CFD), an initiative of Jewish National Fund (JNF) and Media Watch International, that drives constructive dialogue on college campuses throughout the U.S. by bringing different speakers from Israel to discuss the issues affecting Israel, how it is covered in the media, and its unique role as the only democracy in the Middle East. Since 2002, the highly successful CFD has visited nearly 100 campuses and communities across the U.S. and sponsored 267 programs. Past speakers include Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Shimon Peres and other noted politicians and journalists. Speakers look to engage Jewish students, Israel activists, campus student leaders, campus administration, and faculty in interactive and in-depth discussions. “Caravan for Democracy is fortunate to host Ishmael Khaldi on college campuses and communities this September,” said Rabbi Eric M. Lankin, D.Min, JNF’s Chief of Institutional Advancement and Education. “His presence as an Israeli citizen and member of Israel’s Bedouin Muslim community; his outstanding academic accomplishments; and his experiences within Israel’s Diplomatic Corps articulate an important message about Israel and its commitments to freedom and democracy.” Born the third of 11 children in a Bedouin village in the Galilee, Ishmael Khaldi served in the Israeli Border Police, Israel Defense Forces and Defense Ministry, then became the first Bedouin in Israel’s diplomatic corps. In 2009, he was appointed advisor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs Avigdor Lieberman. Mr. Khaldi recently published his memoir, A Shepherd’s Journey, where he tells a remarkable story of transformation from his modest village roots to his
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Ishmael Khaldi, Middle East and Arab Affairs Advisor to the Israeli Foreign Ministry. triumph as a diplomat and voice of reason in the Middle East. For more information about Mr. Khaldi's schedule, contact Danielle Obrart at 212879-9305 ext. 246 or dobrart@jnf.org. Jewish National Fund (JNF) began in 1901 collecting coins in blue boxes to purchase land and return the Jewish people to their homeland. In over 109 years, JNF has evolved into a global environmental leader and become the central address for partnering with the land and people of Israel. JNF has planted 250 million trees; built over 1,000 parks and recreational areas; constructed security roads; educated students around the world about Israel; created new communities so that Jews from around the world would have a place to call home; discovered new means of growing plants under arid conditions, bringing green to the desert; and built over 205 reservoirs and water recycling centers, increasing Israel’s water supply by 12%. Today, JNF is supporting Israel’s newest generation of pioneers by bringing life to the Negev Desert, Israel’s last frontier. A United Nations NGO, JNF sponsors international conferences on desertification, shares afforestation techniques, and funds research on arid land management. JNF is a registered 501(c)(3) organization and continuously earns top ratings from charity overseers. For more information on JNF, call 888-JNF-0099 or visit www.jnf.org.
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WAR ON TERROR
The Jewish Voice
September 23, 2011
WAR ON TERROR Court Declares Out al-Qaeda PA Terrorists Resume Rocket Plotter’s Sentence Too Lenient Attacks on Southern Israel A federal appeals court ruling threw out a 17-year prison sentence for alQaeda plotter Jose Padilla Monday, suggesting the prison term imposed by a Miami federal judge was too lenient. The ruling ordered a new sentencing for Padilla. federal jury convicted Padilla, Adham Hassoun and Kifah Jayyousi in April 2007 on terrorism-related charges that that included financial support and recruitment for al-Qaeda and other Islamist terror groups. Padilla was sentenced to 17 years, Hassoun to 15 years and Jayyousi to 12 years. Padilla, a former Chicago gang member and convert to Islam, was arrested at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport in 2002 on suspicion of plotting to bomb apartment buildings and detonate a "dirty bomb" in the United States. He was held for three years without charge as an enemy combatant until he was moved to a civilian prison and charged in a Miami federal court. The "dirty bomb" allegations were not part of his indictment. The appeals court upheld the Padilla's conviction, along with those of Hassoun and Jayyousi. "The record shows that the government presented evidence that the defendants formed a support cell linked to radical Islamists worldwide and conspired to send money, recruits and equipment overseas to groups that the defendants knew used vio-
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Jose Padilla escorted by police. lence in their efforts to establish Islamic states," according to the ruling. It also upheld Hassoun and Jayyousi's sentences. But it found that the sentencing judge who presided over the four-month trial did not attribute enough importance to Padilla's training at an al-Qaeda camp in Afghanistan. "Padilla posed a heightened risk of future dangerousness due to his al-Qaeda training," the ruling said. It also ruled that the judge "attached little weight to Padilla's extensive criminal history, gave no weight to his future dangerousness, compared him to criminals who were not similarly situated and gave unreasonable weight to the conditions of his pre-trial confinement." REPORT BY IPT NEWS, WWW.INVESTIGATIVEPROJECT.ORG.
Parts of Qassam rockets, collected by Israelis after the Palestinian attacks. BY CHANA YA'AR Palestinian Authority Arab terrorists are ignoring a warning by PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas that attacking Israel is counterproductive while he seeks United Nations recognition of the PA as a sovereign nation and full member of the international body. n southern Israel, a short-range Qassam rocket fired by Gaza-based PA Arab terrorists exploded in an open area of the Eshkol Regional Council district. The explosion, which came Monday night at about 9:30 PM local time, did not cause any damage or physical injuries. The air raid siren alerted nearby communities, sending families racing once again for safe rooms and bomb shelters. Those with small children were forced to decide on a split second's notice whether to wake them, or gamble on the chance that
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perhaps the missile would land “elsewhere” this time. Further north, PA Arab rioters blocked the Cross-Binyamin Highway near the Jewish town of Neve Tzuf. The rioters hurled rocks, clashing violently with IDF soldiers who were sent to the scene. No injuries were reported, and after a short time, the soldiers were able to reopen the highway. Neve Tzuf is built on the ruins of a Jewish village dating back to Talmudic times. It is a National Religious community of some 250 families, in the southwestern hills of Samaria. The community is located approximately 35 minutes from Jerusalem, 35 minutes from Petach Tikvah, 45 minutes to Bar Ilan University and Tel Aviv, and 50 minutes to Rehovot and the Weizmann Institute. ISRAELNATIONALNEWS.COM
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September 23, 2011
Israeli Maj.-Gen. Gilad: Cold Peace, Any Peace Better than Violence
DEFENSE NEWS
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Reports: CIA Building Secret Mideast Air Base to Target Yemeni Terrorists
Any peace, be it cold peace, is better than any form of violence or war, said Amos Gilad, the senior advisor to Israel’s Defense Ministry aj.-Gen. (ret.) Gilad said that Israel’s peace with Egypt is crucial amid a changing Middle East landscape and that the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan is committed to its peace with Israel. The serious challenge for Israel is to protect lives and prevent violence, he added. Thanks to security coordination with the Palestinian Authority and Jordan, Israel is living in its “most convenient security ever,” added Gilad. The following are Gilad’s key quotes during a day-long briefing by The Israel Project on the Palestinian U.N. recognition bid and its regional implications.
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Jordan:
The Jordanians are committed to peace, not only for our interests but for theirs. Peace cannot prevail, however, without peace in Egypt.
Egypt:
It is still the leader of the Arab world. Some may argue about it but from our perspective it is a major pillar and we must do what we can to make peace while keeping security obligations, including preventing smuggling of weapons into Gaza, protecting Sinai and so on. Egypt is a responsible superpower in the Middle East.
Iran:
Iran is still the main threat. It is determined. It is radical.
Turkey:
Our relations are not at their peak; but violence and threats of course will not be a solution. We hope for peaceful reconciliation.
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They are a pillar in our national security and it is worthy to mention them.
Maj.-Gen. (ret.) Amos Gilad.
Lebanon:
We are facing radical entities – and Hezbollah is a radical entity. Hezbollah is creating a radical state within Lebanon by separating the southern parts of the country from the rest of the country. Hezbollah, supported heavily by Shi’ite Iran, has thousands of rockets (at least 45,000). It is a real military entity (as former U.S. secretary of defense Robert Gates has said) possessing missiles and other “surprises” as Secretary General of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, calls them. Nasrallah is effectively running military, political and terror commands under one organization.
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We call Gaza “Hamastan” because this regime is funded by Iran. Although they are Sunni, Hamas as well as Islamic Jihad are supported and armed by Iran. Hamas now has hundreds of rockets, along with Iranian expertise, aimed at Tel Aviv. Hamas is part of Egypt’s Muslim brotherhood, whose mission is to take over the Middle East and establish an Islamic empire. It is good to remember who they are.
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It seems that Syrian President Bashar alAssad will stay in power even if it means slaughtering his own people. Assad, who has no intentions of stepping down, is supported by his army (for the time being). The Alawites, a minority of about 2 million in Syria, struck deals with other groups for the economy and security – but now the incentives for them may be gone.
IDF TRAINS IN UNDERGROUND TUNNELS ELITE IDF TROOPS TRAIN AGAINST THE GROWING TERRORIST THREAT OF UNDERGROUND TUNNELS
BY FLORIT SHOIHET A new threat to Israel's security is forming right underneath the IDF's feet, the threat of underground tunnels and bunkers. In the Gaza area alone there are hundreds of tunnels used mostly for terrorist purposes. he threat of tunnels was highlighted in June 2006 when terrorists used a tunnel near Kerem Shalom, killing two and kidnapping IDF soldier Cpl. Gilad Shalit. As of recently, infantry reconnaissance battalions, as well as special forces units, have begun training in underground combat. The IDF’s online news service joined the Nahal reconnaissance battalion in such a training exercise.
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The exercise took place in tunnels located underneath the Urban Warfare Training Facility in the Central Command's Lachish Training Base. While underground, terrorists can be hiding in every dark room or hall and surprise the disoriented soldiers and the commanders. Using head lamps, the commanders follow the soldiers intently with occasional stops for instructions. "The IDF is constantly improving and elite units like the Nahal Reconnaissance Battalion provide solutions no matter where the enemy is," explained Company Commander, Maj. A. "We've encountered underground combat in Operation Cast Lead," he added. "The training exercise prepares the soldiers for any necessary scenario." REPORT BY IDF NEWS SERVICE, WWW.IDF.IL
U.S. officials say the construction of the CIA air base suggests President Barack Obama's administration views armed drones as a key weapon against terrorist targets. U.S. media report the Central Intelligence Agency is building a secret air base in the Middle East to use for armed drone attacks on terrorists in Yemen. he Associated Press, which first reported the construction plans, quotes unnamed U.S. officials who say the base, at an undisclosed location, could be operational by the end of the year. The building of the base comes at a time the U.S. government is increasingly worried about Yemen-based al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. The group has tried to carry out terrorist attacks on the United States and has taken control of large areas of Yemen during months of civil unrest and protests against Yemenis President Ali Abdullah Saleh. Yemen's government has permitted some U.S. military operations in the country and is now allowing expanded strikes against alQaeda targets. U.S. officials say the construction of the CIA air base suggests President Barack Obama's administration views armed drones
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as a key weapon against terrorist targets. Drone strikes are frequently carried out in Pakistan, although the United States does not publicly acknowledge them. There have been frequent clashes in Yemen. On Wednesday the Associated Press quoted Yemeni security officials as saying that Islamic militants seized parts of the southern city of Houta in a surprise attack. For several months, there have been widespread protests against the 33-year reign of Mr. Saleh. The U.S. and Yemen's Gulf neighbors have tried to negotiate a deal for him to leave office, but he has refused. They now hope to insure that he does not return to his homeland from Saudi Arabia, where he is being treated for injuries from a bomb attack inside his presidential compound. The U.S. government says the Yemenbased al-Qaeda group is responsible for the attempted bombing of an airliner to Detroit on Christmas Day in 2009, as well as an effort to dispatch bomb-laden packages to the U.S. last year. VOANEWS.COM
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POLITICS
The Jewish Voice
September 23, 2011
U.S. Senators Press Obama on Brooklyn Borough Turkey-Israel Ties President Marty Markowitz Heading for Retirement BY TOVA KRAUSZ
(L-R) Senator Chuck Schumer, Senator Joe Lieberman, Senator Joe Manchin, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, Senator Scott Brown AFP A bipartisan group of US senators pressed President Barack Obama in a letter released Monday to mount a "diplomatic offensive" to defuse worsening tensions between Israel and Turkey. r. President, it appears that Turkey is shifting to a policy of confrontation, if not hostility, towards our allies in Israel and we urge you to mount a diplomatic offensive to reverse this course," they wrote. The senators, Republicans and Democrats, cited a series of moves by Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan that "call into question its commitment to the NATO alliance, threaten regional stability and undermine US interests." Those same policy decisions show Turkey is "now seeking to confront our allies in Israel while developing closer relations with Iran, and other anti-Western proxies," said the seven lawmakers. They cited Turkey's expulsion of Israel's ambassador, the recall of its own ambassador to Israel, cancellation of all bilateral defense
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ties, banning of Israel aircraft from Turkish airspace, and other moves. "In light of these developments, we ask you send a strong message to Turkey that United States is fully committed to the security of the State of Israel," the lawmakers urged Obama. Washington should also make clear in writing that Israel will receive "real-time" data from a new missile defense radar to be based in Turkey, despite reported objections from top Turkish government officials. "We ask you to outline Turkey's eroding support in Congress with Prime Minister Erdogan at the earliest opportunity and how its current ill-advised policy toward the State of Israel will also negatively reflect on USTurkish relations and Turkey's role in the future of NATO," they said. Democrats Chuck Schumer, Mark Warner, Joe Manchin, Kirsten Gillibrand, Republicans Mark Kirk and Scott Brown, and independent Joe Lieberman signed the letter, which came one day before Obama holds talks Tuesday with Erdogan on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York. © 1994-2011 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
Reports from the New York Post, various blogs, even the Village Voice say to count Marty Markowitz out of the mayoral race. However, one Benjamin Sutton of www.thelmagazine.com quotes Markowitz himself as saying "It's no secret that I have not raised money or opened a campaign account. However, I believe I would be an excellent Mayor and could bring the 'heart' back to New York City. don't think the window has closed and I have not made a final decision." Marty Markowitz, the “powerful, popular” (at least, according to the Post) Brooklyn Borough President, who was heavily involved in the opening of the Red Hook cruise-ship terminal, attracting new development to Downtown Brooklyn and Coney Island and convincing the owners of the NBA New Jersey Nets to move into a new Prospect Heights arena next year, was seriously considering a bid for mayor. When his term as borough president ends in 2013, the 66-year-old politician cannot run for re-election due to term limits. Most reports, including a “political insider” quoted by the Post, have him saying that he just wants to retire
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when this term is up and spend more time with his wife and enjoy himself. However, the “Beep” is apparently not ready to make any formal announcements about the future as of yet. This retirement news comes on the heels of a conflict-of-interest controversy over his many junkets. Markowitz was slapped with a $20,000 fine by the city Conflicts of Interest Board
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Anti-Israel Subway Ads Spark Controversy BY TOVA KRAUSZ Local media outlets have been reporting on new billboards going up across the city in MTA stations that could have commuters doing a double-take. Assemblyman Dov Hikind objects to the advertisements, calling them “very, very dangerous.” The billboards are ads sponsored by an anti-Israel group calling itself Two Peoples, One Future. The campaign, titled “Be on our side,” wishes to stop U.S. military aid to Israel, something by which New Yorkers, many of whom are Jewish, are bound to be offended. he ads feature fathers and children clustered together, smiling. The headline, “Be on our side,” provokes the question: whose side are we on, then? Assemblyman Dov Hikind is most definitely on the other side, saying that the group seeks to weaken the Jewish state by encouraging the U.S. to cut billions of dollars in military support to its only Democratic ally in the Middle East. CBS News quotes Hikind as saying that this is a “one-sided, mean-spirited attempt to undermine the security and well-being of the people of Israel … This is for war.” The billboards were installed September 5 in 18 subway stations around New York. An MTA spokesman says it didn’t take long for the complaints to start. When asked why the publicly funded MTA agreed to the controversial advertising campaign, spokesman Kevin Ortiz responded, “We have specific guidelines for advertising. It cannot promote anything illegal, be obscene or imply the MTA’s endorsement. This campaign adhered to the guidelines.” In other words, because the MTA could not be considered to be endorsing the campaign, they could accept the money for the ads without being responsible. Ethan VeselyFlad with the Fellowship of Reconciliation, a lead sponsor of the campaign, explained that this is a voice that needed to be heard, which is why the Fellowship is supporting it. “We believe that that military aid is actually pro-
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tracting the conflict between Israel and Palestine instead of working to end it.” The New Middle East News reports that the group Americans for a Safe Israel has started an e-mail campaign in response. Calling on Jews to act, the group wrote, “It doesn’t matter whether or not you believe that Israel no longer needs U.S. aid. The hate engendered by such an ad campaign focuses on Israel as the aggressor and occupier, without mention of U.S. aid to terrorist countries and the United Nations. Targeting Israel is anti-Semitic, anti-Israel, immoral, and inde-
______________________ “We believe that that military aid is actually protracting the conflict between Israel and Palestine instead of working to end it.” ______________________ cent.” AFSI is calling on people write a letter to New York officials saying, “I have just learned of the anti-Israel ad campaign that has been launched in 18 NYC subway stations by twopeoplesonefuture.org. I am contacting you to express my strong disapproval with this ad campaign. The campaign is supported by the anti-Israel lobby, whose agenda is not peace but the destruction of the State of Israel. Second, it unfairly penalizes Israel for defending itself. New York City should not allow these types of ads to be run in our transit system.” The national campaign has sparked controversy over the definition of political advertising and whether public companies should accept such advertising. The Supreme Court, in a previous ruling, decided that the political advertising is protected under the First Amendment guaranteeing freedom of speech. Assemblyman Hikind is planning to respond with an advertising campaign of his own urging the American people not to forget their friends and keep supporting them.
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REAL ESTATE
The Jewish Voice
September 23, 2011
LEVIEV'S MANHATTAN CLOCK TOWER SALE FALLS THROUGH Africa-Israel has been selling off its U.S. properties to reduce its debt and improve its balance sheet
BY GUY KATSOVITCH The $170 million sale of Manhattan's Clock Tower building at Herald Square Africa-Israel Investments Ltd. (TASE:AFIL), controlled by chairman Lev Leviev, has fallen through. AfricaIsrael, which owns the Clock Tower through AFI USA Inc., announced that it was in talks to sell the property in May. frica-Israel has been selling off properties it bought in US during the real estate boom, in order to reduce its debt and improve its balance sheet. A sale of the Clock Tower would have reduced AFI USA's debt by $64 million, and generated a free cash flow of $93 million. Africa-Israel books the property at a value of NIS 578 million, and it carries a non-recourse loan of NIS 207 million, which bears 10% annual interest. Africa-Israel bought the Clock Tower at Madison Square Park for $200 million in 2007. The landmark Clock Tower was built in 1909 as the headquarters for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. The 213.5-meter tall 26,000-sq.m. tower was added to the original 1893 building to make it the tallest in the world at the time. The Clock Tower was modelled after the clock tower of St. Mark's Cathedral in Venice, and its four bronze bells, sounds off Händel every fifteen minutes during the day and the
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evening. The interior decor comprises 14 murals by painter Newell Covers Wyeth. Africa-Israel planned to convert the building into luxury condos. Africa-Israel's share price fell 2.5% in morning trading on Sunday to NIS 11.53, giving a market cap of NIS 1.3 billion. REPORT BY GLOBES, ISRAEL BUSINESS NEWS - WWW.GLOBES-ONLINE.COM
September 23, 2011
The Jewish Voice
Efrat: An Oasis for Olim
BY GEDALIAH BORVICK Nestled in the Judean Hills just eight miles south of Jerusalem, Efrat is a picturesque community and a popular destination for English-speaking immigrants. Efrat boasts excellent schools, an efficient service-oriented local government, a beautiful library with an extensive English book section, many Torah classes for men and women, a mix of retail stores and restaurants, lovely parks, and an active community center offering dozens of programs for adults and children. he largest settlement in Yesha’s (Yehuda and Shomron) Gush Etzion region with approximately 1,400 families and 8,000 residents, Efrat is divided into seven neighborhoods, each named for one of the seven species of the Land of Israel: Gefen (grape), Te'ena (fig), Rimon (pomegranate), Dekel (date palm), Dagan (grain), Tamar (date) and Zayit (olives). Dagan and Tamar are still in the planning stages, with plans to build 2,500 housing units, which would double the size of the community. Efrat rises to a height of 3,150 feet above sea level, and shares the same beauti-
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ful mountain climate as Jerusalem, offering relatively mild summers and cool winters. The city’s population is primarily Dati Leumi (religious Zionist) and also has a Chardal (Charedi Leumi – or Yeshivish Zionist) crowd. There are more than twenty Orthodox shuls – mostly Ahkenazic, but Sephardic and Yemenite synagogues also exist – in addition to several post-high school Yeshivas and Kollels, plus there is an active women’s learning program. Most residents work in the greater Jerusalem area or have home-based businesses, while some travel to Tel Aviv or farther away via car or the train in Bet Shemesh. Thanks to a highway linking Jerusalem with Gush Etzion, Efrat is a mere twenty minute drive from Jerusalem. Efrat is accessible via public and private transportation, although living there without a car can be challenging. Efrat’s English-speaking residents comprise 35% of the population, and are very active in all aspects of the community: they provide leadership within the local schools, and are involved in many important chessed projects and in local shul programming – delivering shiurim and running educational, spiritual and social activities.
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NEW YEAR’S “BLAST” AT BOYS TOWN JERUSALEM In preparation for the upcoming Jewish New Year, seventh graders at Boys Town Jerusalem took a deep breath before testing their prowess at the complex art of “shofar” blowing. The shofar is the traditional ram’s horn, whose aweinspiring blasts have sounded for the Jewish People from time immemorial— and serves as the quintessential symbol of the Rosh Hashanah (New Year) prayer service. t Boys Town, students devoted a full day of hands-on activities at a “Jewish Holiday Workshop” to delve into religious, historical and cultural aspects surrounding the shofar. The young men examined the intricacies of Jewish laws governing the type of animal from which the horns may be used, as well as the exact timbre and measure of every ritual shofar blast. They were then given a try at coaxing the sounds from the shofar, and even made their own shofars to take home. With a full array of exotic shofars on display, the students--whose own family origins span the globe--were introduced to the varied shofar customs that originate from different Jewish communities worldwide. The mini-exhibition also included several historical shofars that were sounded under difficult or even tragic conditions. One was clandestinely blown at the Western Wall before the 1948 Israeli War of Independence, in direct defiance of the British Army. Another shofar was a remnant of the Holocaust, once smuggled into a secret Rosh Hashanah prayer service by desperate Jews who prayed to proclaim
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September 23, 2011
20 QUESTIONS FOR THE NEW YEAR Effective ways for moving your life forward
Kids from Boys Town Jerusalem. redemption with the shofar’s pure, aweinspiring cry. Boys Town Jerusalem is one of Israel's premier institutions for educating the country's next generation of leaders in the fields of technology, commerce, education, the military and public service. Since its founding in 1948, BTJ has pursued its mission of turning young boys from limited backgrounds into young men with limitless futures. From Junior High through the college level, the three part curriculum at Boys Town - academic, technological and Torah is designed to turn otherwise disadvantaged Israeli youth into productive citizens of tomorrow. Boys Town’s 18 acre campus is a home away from home for its more than 850 students. More than 6,500 graduates hold key positions throughout Israeli society. VISIT US AT WWW.BOYSTOWNJERUSALEM.ORG
BY ALEXANDER SEINFELD COURTESY OF AISH HATORAH
One effective way to move your life forward is to ask yourself existential life questions. The traditional time to do this is around the time of Rosh Hashana. on't try to answer all the questions at once. Take some time and meditate on each question for at least five minutes.
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When you feel satisfied that you have a concrete, workable answer, move onto the next question. You will want to spread this out over a number of sessions. Later, go back and refine your answers. Then, work out an action plan for achieving your goals. Aish.com has a series of articles on the mechanics of a “Spiritual Accounting,” which we recommend. You may want to have this list with you at the shofar blowing, a time of special inspiration and insight.
do I most feel that my life is meaningful? 1 When would bring me more happiness than anything else in the world? 2 What are my three most significant achievements in the past year? 3 What are my biggest mistakes in the past year? 4 What project or goal, if left undone, will I most regret a year from now? 5 What I knew I couldn’t fail, what would I undertake to accomplish in life? 6 IfWhat are my three major goals in life? What practical steps can I take in the next two months toward these goals? 7 What the most important decision I need to make this year? 8 What isimportant did I avoid making last year? 9 What endeavordecision gives me the strongest feeling of self-respect? 10What kind of person to be one year from now? 11What kind of person dodo II want be five years from now? 12Over the last year, did mywantmostto important relationships become and deeper, or was there a sense of stagnation and drifting? 13closer can I do to nurture those relationships this year? 14What areas of my life am I hiding from God? 15InWhatwhatis one step I can commit to that will bring me closer to God? 16If I could change one thing about myself, what would it be? 17Are there any idealsonlyI would be willing to die for? 18If I could live my life over, what would I change? 19What do I want written on my tombstone? And how do I begin liv20ing that way now?
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EDITORIAL
The Jewish Voice
September 23, 2011
THE PEOPLE’S VOICE LETTERS TO THE EDITOR EDITORIAL
HATE WEEK IN NEW YORK, BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE UNITED NATIONS Autumn in New York City will never be the same. The traditional atmosphere that marks this time of the year such as cooler temperatures, changing leaves and post-season play for major league baseball have been abruptly usurped by the menacing tone of geopolitical realities. s most of us are already aware, the United Nations General Assembly is convening for its annual session. In addition to hosting assorted rogues and miscreants such as Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, we will also suffer the indignity of witnessing another round of Israel bashing in the guise of “anti-racism” as the Durban III conference is held. But perhaps more than anything else this year, the international spotlight is on the Palestinian bid for statehood. Anyone with a modicum of political awareness is cognizant of the fact that the history of this "august body" is characterized by an extreme belligerence Israel, and the organization has done little to conceal the fact that they have made themselves into a sounding board for Palestinian apologists the world over. Clearly, the ultimate objective of the Palestinian Authority is not to secure an independent, sovereign state in the "West Bank," East Jerusalem and Gaza, but to use the universal sympathy that they've garnered with their finely tuned propaganda machine to "liberate" all of "Palestine," thus ridding the world of the bogeyman of the Middle East (Israel) and the Jews who dare to call it home. Even as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has offered to hold direct talks with PA president Mahmoud
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Abbas at the UN General Assembly, the Palestinian leader remains adamant, dismissing any realistic means of obtaining a genuine peace by thwarting intense diplomatic efforts to avert a crisis over the move for statehood. (Israeli diplomat Abba Eban really put it best when he noted that “the Arabs never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.”) The political implications of Abbas' strategy would open the door for Palestinians to join UN agencies and become party to international treaties, such as the International Criminal Court, where they could take legal action to challenge what they call the "Israeli occupation" of their land. The scenario could play out as follows: If, as expected, the U.S. vetoes this bid in the Security Council, or the PLO decides to back down on its plan for full membership in the UN, it can still submit a resolution to the General Assembly. A vote could be held within 48 hours of submission but would probably be delayed until after the General Debate in late September or early October. This would give more time to negotiate a text that would have maximum support, from European countries in particular. Approval would require a simple majority of those present. There is no veto. The time is long overdue to neutralize the totalitarian antics and the unmitigated corruption that have come to define the United Nations. The time is long overdue for the voices of dissent to be raised against the plethora of lies that have been incessantly spewed forth by the "eternally victimized" Palestinians. The U.S. must lead the way by severely tightening the purse strings on funding of the UN; by declaring in the strongest of terms to the 126 nations who are poised to legitimize a terrorist state that they too will be considered enemies of the U.S. and to stop pandering to Islamic demagogues in the name of political correctness.
TURKISH-ISRAELI RELATIONS CONTINUE TO CIRCLE THE DRAIN When mediation by U.S. Secretary of State Hilary Clinton is beginning to look like your best option, all hope is truly lost. linton has, in the last few days, urged Turkey to “keep the door open” for mending diplomatic ties with Israel, and has offered to mediate the present dispute. But Ankara isn’t biting. For those who have been dwelling under a rock for the past month or two (and haven’t been having the Jewish Voice delivered to said rock), the present dispute stems from the ill-fated flotilla to Gaza, which media outlets continue to refer to as an “aid flotilla” despite the revelation that, in fact, no humanitarian supplies were found to be on board. The Turkish government, rather than distancing itself from the belligerence of the “peaceful” (yet heavily-armed) NGO behind the fiasco, closed ranks and demanded an official apology. When the Israelis (predictably) failed to apologize for defending themselves, things continued to go downhill. Both Israel and Turkey have recalled their top diplomats, and just by way of rat-
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tling the saber (or should I say, scimitar) a bit, the Turkish Air Force has stopped using the U.S.-designed targeting system because it does not provide the option of labeling Israeli aircraft as hostile. The bad news is that the Turkish military can now track Israeli forces on their radar and label them as enemies, should they see fit to do so. The good news is that the new tracking system is designed by the Turks themselves, and therefore, one would hope, less effective than the military technology they have been importing from us and the Israelis until now. With the Palestinian Authority staging its farcical efforts at UN recognition, and the Iranians as bellicose as ever, Israel doesn’t need another enemy in the region. Unfortunately, the Turks have left themselves and the Israelis with little hope of a diplomatic resolution to the current altercation that would allow both sides to save face. We can only hope that their desire for peace and prosperity exceeds their pride and belligerence. If you don’t own any stock in Israel’s defense industries, now might be a good time to buy.
Editor: hadn’t been following the special election in Brooklyn and Queens all that closely. So imagine my surprise when I pick up last week’s Jewish Voice and find that a Republican has taken the 9th district for the first time in nearly a century! I, for one, am excited that the voters, even in an overwhelmingly democratic dis-
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Editor: ow outrageous is it that Jews are prohibited from doing anything Jewish on the Temple Mount, the holiest site in all of Judaism? I read your editorial last week, “Sacred Grounds for Arrest,” and I find it disgusting that the Israeli police are forced to take on a Gestapo-like role, handcuffing Jews and drag them away if they dare to mumble words of prayer, or pick up a few grains of dust, from a holy spot. What is it about a Jew davening that will automatically spark a Palestinian
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Editor: aving read reports by the Jewish Voice, and other sources, about how the Israeli-Turkish alliance is going down the tubes on account of the whole flotilla thing, I have to say I am distraught, and more than a little worried. Turkey was pretty much Israel’s only ally in the region. Sure, we had peace treaties with several Arab countries, but there’s a big difference between countries that you work
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trict such as New York’s 9th, are finally taking a stand for what is right, and challenging Obama’s stance on Israel. Mazel tov to our new congressman, Bob Turner. And ya’asher koach to the Jewish Voice for helping to get him elected! Sincerely, George M. Queens, NY
riot? And if that’s what it will do, as is implied by Israel’s policy and actions, then maybe it’s not Israeli Jews who need to be kept in check. People in this country need to know what’s really going on Israel—the situation on the ground. I’m glad there are papers like the Jewish Voice, bringing this information to the masses. Keep up the good fight! With appreciation, Jon H. Brooklyn, NY
with on common goals, and countries that you’re just not launching missiles at. Turkey was one of the former, a genuine ally. The rise of political Islam in that country seems to be destroying the closest thing to democracy ever seen in the Islamic world. Mustafa Kemal Ataturk would be spinning in his grave! Sincerely, Steve W. Brooklyn, NY
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Durban I, II & III: Jew Hatred Law as Politics: The Case of Migron Rivaling Nazi Germany What happened in Migron tramples the majesty of the Jewish people in our homeland
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BY MOSHE DANN
oil contracts with the Arab countries and fearful of the outcomes of the uprisings that have taken place in Egypt, Libya, Tunisia and Yemen, but seeking to be seen as supporting those uprisings, are willing to denounce Israel, hoping to avoid confrontation in their own countries with the rising Muslim populations there. Many of those European countries undoubtedly believe that throwing Israel under the bus is a small price to pay for an accommodation with the Islamic world. The Muslim Arab countries, having failed on five occasions to defeat Israel on the battlefield, are now seeking to win a diplomatic victory at the U.N. which will deprive Israel of secure and defensible borders, end negotiations between the parties and impose a Munich-like settlement on Israel. In addition, through their false accusations and hatred of Jews worthy of Hitler, they will once again at the so-called Durban III Conference on September 21 engage in an exercise of Jew hatred. The conference will not succeed because the United States, at the direction of President Obama, will not participate in the proposed auto-da-fe. It will not succeed because countries of conscience such as Canada will not participate, its Immigration Minister Jason Kenney having said, “The original Durban Conference, and its declaration, as well as the non-governmental activities associated with it, proved to be a dangerous platform for racism, including antiSemitism…Canada is clearly committed to the fight against racism, but the Durban process commemorates an agenda that actually promotes racism rather than combats it…Canada will not participate in this charade.” United States representative John Sammis stated to the UN committee that the event "risks undermining the relationship we have worked hard to strengthen over the past few years between the United States and the U.N.” Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) said, "We all witnessed how extreme anti-Semitic and anti-American voices took over Durban I and Durban II, and we should expect the same thing to happen with Durban III... I appreciate the Obama Administration’s strong statement opposing yesterday’s resolution, and urge it to again withdraw from the event and encourage other nations to do the same." On June 1, the Obama administration confirmed that the U.S. would boycott the conference. Joseph Macmanus, acting U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs, stated that the Durban process “included ugly displays of intolerance and anti-Semitism.”
The destruction of three homes in the Jewish community of Migron in the middle of the night raises serious questions about Israel's selective prosecution of law in Judea and Samaria and the abuse of police and judicial powers. lthough the State has the legal authority to carry out actions it deems necessary to protect the society which it serves, was the destruction in Migron – like that in Amona in 2009 – morally and ethically right? What happened in Migron is an example of discriminatory application of building and planning laws to mask political objectives, arbitrarily against Jews and against Zionism garbed in judicial robes and police uniforms. A month after the three homes were finished in April, 2011, Peace Now petitioned the High Court, claiming that they were built on private Palestinian land and demanded that they be destroyed. A month later they admitted that their claim was false and withdrew their petition, but, they and the State Prosecutor demanded that the homes be destroyed anyway since they were built without authorization; the Court agreed. The owners of the homes did not deny that they had built without permission, but argued that it was impossible to obtain that permission since the relevant authorities refused and the High Court had declared the entire community of Migron illegal and unauthorized and ordered its destruction. The home owners argued that they had the right to build in Migron and that their homes should not be destroyed without providing an alternative solution, as the Court held in similar cases involving Arabs who built without permission. And, they asked, why the rush? The case of Migron, therefore, presents some disturbing problems. First, why did the High Court accept Peace Now's petition when they were not a party to the issue and therefore had no basis for bringing a legal action? The homes cause no damage to anyone and could have remained to be resolved with the entire community. Therefore, there was no reason to destroy them, at least not now. Second, regarding the community as a whole, relying on the State Prosecutor, the High Court accepted the claims of Arab petitioners and NGOs without examining whether those claims were valid and enforceable. This should have been decided by the District Court, but was not. Third, an internal memo sent by Brig. Gen. Moti Almoz, head of the Civil Administration, revealed a policy of selective enforcement against Jews. But he does not make policy; that comes from PM Netanyahu who approved and Defense Minister Ehud Barak who ordered the destruction at Migron. Fourth, why were the homes in Migron chosen for destruction? There are hundreds of thousands of illegal Arab buildings,
A _____________________ Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand: “We all witnessed how extreme anti-Semitic and anti-American voices took over Durban I and Durban II, and we should expect the same thing to happen with Durban III” _____________________ The Italian Vice President of the Committee of Foreign Affairs, Fiamma Nirenstein, who covered the original Durban conference as a journalist wrote, “The UN never ceases to amaze. Just when we thought we had become immune to all the poisonous concoctions that get dished out, once again, ten years down the road, we are being offered a remake of "Durban 1", the UN conference against racism which—to most people's horror—was transformed into a racist conference against Israel and America.” Jews who came to the land now known as Israel and Palestine with the sojourn of their Patriarch and founder, Abraham, have lived there for over 3,000 years. They were carried off into slavery after war with Babylonia in 587 BCE. Then, the Persian King Cyrus permitted them to return to Jerusalem in 538 BCE. Many were once again carried off into slavery by the Romans in 70 CE, but some Jews always remained in the land. They began their return in large numbers at the urgings of Theodore Herzl culminating in the declaration of statehood by Ben Gurion who became its first prime minister. Today, there are living in Israel 5.8 million Jews and 1.6 million Arabs all full citizens of that democratic state. I have no doubt whether one believes in G-d or does not, that the people of Israel and the 13 million Jews who live in this world making up one-fifth of one percent of the world’s population will survive this latest attack upon them by their enemies.
including entire Arab and Bedouin towns which are illegal. Called "unrecognized," some of these towns have been and are in the process of being considered for legal recognition. Why are the homes in Migron, or other Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria different? Fifth, why were officers of the State, Civil Administration and High Court justices so eager to destroy these homes? Was there collusion between government officials to
_____________________ “The home owners argued that they had the right to build in Migron and that their homes should not be destroyed without providing an alternative solution, as the Court held in similar cases involving Arabs who built without permission.” _____________________ carry out the destruction for ideological and political reasons? Why didn't the State Prosecutor, Osnat Mandel, contact the cabinet secretary as required, as she admitted at a Knesset committee meeting? Sixth, why didn't the High Court protect the civil and humanitarian rights of the home owners? Why didn't they follow proper legal and administrative procedures with regard to claims of ownership and property rights? Seventh, to whom does the land on which Migron was built belong? Like other areas of Judea and Samaria in which Jews have built, if it is not State land, but not claimed, why not let it be built up? For whom is it intended? Chief Justice Dorit Beinisch recently ruled in an opinion that all land that was not specifically designated as State Land would be considered Palestinian land. This ruling seems to eliminate categories of land that have not been determined, in which Arab land claims have not been verified, and land which Arabs have simply expropriated. If Migron and other communities were built mistakenly on privately owned land, the owners can and should be fully compensated. Destroying these homes serves no purpose and strikes a blow at the raison d'etre of the State of Israel and Zionism itself. Three piles of rubble in Migron join nine in Amona, ten gutted apartments in Hebron's Jewish Quarter, hundreds of once-Jewish homes throughout Judea and Samaria, and thousands more in Gush Katif and Northern Shomron, monuments to Israeli injustice. All done legally, with the authority of the State, they are memorials of disgrace. Such actions trample the majesty of the Jewish people in our homeland. Moshe Dann is a writer and journalist living in Jerusalem.
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THERE IS NO PALESTINIAN STATE BY EFRAIM KARSH
modest successes, most notably a sustained economic recovery that has nearly restored the West Bank's pre-intifada levels of performance. Yet Fayyad has created no new institutions, and the PA remains a corrupt and wholly dysfunctional organization. The Palestinian prime minister may claim to have laid the groundwork for a democratic Palestine, but the presidency of Mahmoud Abbas, and by extension his own position, are totally unconstitutional. Not only did Abbas defy Hamas's landslide victory in the January 2006 parliamentary election, but Abbas's presidency expired more than two years ago. No less important, the two factions dominating Palestinian life, the Hamas and Fatah, remain armed groups, and active practitioners of terrorism—an assured recipe for a failed state. The Oslo Accords charged the PA to dismantle all armed groups in the West Bank and Gaza, but Arafat never complied; David Ben-Gurion, by contrast, dissolved all
As the United Nations prepares to vote on the issue of Palestinian statehood, it might be worth bearing in mind that whatever the outcome, the result will certainly not be the creation of an actual Palestinian state, any more than the November 1947 partition resolution spelled the inevitable creation of a Jewish one. n 1948, Israel came into being due to the extraordinary cohesion of Palestine's Jewish community (the Yishuv). Armed with an unwavering sense of purpose and an extensive network of institutions, the Yishuv managed to surmount a bevy of international obstacles and fend off a pan-Arab attempt to destroy it. Likewise, it was the total lack of communal solidarity—the willingness to subordinate personal interest to the collective good—that accounted for the collapse and dispersion of Palestinian Arab society as its leaders tried to subvert partition. Sixty-four years later, Palestinian society seems no better prepared for statehood. And the U.N. would be doing the Palestinians a great disservice by accepting the corrupt and dysfunctional Palestinian Authority as its newest member. While this would hardly be the first failed state to be delivered by the world organization, the unique circumstances of its possible birth make failure a foregone conclusion, and the consequences are too dire to contemplate. The building of the Jewish state began in the Swiss town of Basel in 1889 at the First Zionist Congress, which defined Zionism's goal as "the creation of a home for the Jewish people in Palestine to be secured by public law," and established institutions to promote it. By the time the League of Nations appointed Britain as the mandatory for Palestine 23 years later, the Yishuv had been transformed into a cohesive and organized national community that provided most of Palestine's Jewry with work, trade union protection as well as with education, health care, and defense.
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Arafat told his close friend and collaborator, Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, that the Palestinians lacked the traditions, unity, and discipline to have a successful state. By contrast, it was the tragedy of the Palestinians that the two leaders who determined their national development during the 20th century—Hajj Amin Husseini and Yasser Arafat—were far more interested in destroying the Jewish national cause than leading their own people. As far back as 1978, Arafat told his close friend and collaborator, Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, that the Palestinians lacked the traditions, unity, and discipline to have a successful state. Once given control of parts of the West Bank and Gaza, this prognosis became a self-fulfilling prophecy, as his regime quickly became oppressive and corrupt. Later it helped launch the second intifada, the bloodiest and most destructive confrontation between Israelis and Palestinians since the 1948 war. In the process, he destroyed the fragile civil society and relatively productive economy that had devel-
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oped during the previous decade. Paradoxically, it was Israel's occupation of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip during the June 1967 war that laid the groundwork for Palestinian civil society. Not only did it bring the issue of Palestinian independence to the forefront of the international agenda, but it also produced dramatic improvements in the Palestinians' quality of life. During the occupation, the territories became the fourth fastest-growing economy in the world— ahead of Singapore, Hong Kong, Korea, and substantially ahead of Israel itself. From 1967 to 2000, life expectancy rose from 48 to 72, while infant mortality fell from 60 per 1,000 live births in 1968 to 15 per 1,000 births in 2000. And while there was not a single university that existed in the West Bank or Gaza before Israeli rule, by the mid1990s, there were seven such institutions, boasting more than 16,000 students. All of these achievements were steadily undone after Oslo, as Arafat's regime took control over parts of the territories. In September of 1993, conditions in the West Bank and Gaza were still better than those in most neighboring Arab states—and this despite the economic decline caused by the first intifada. Within six months of Arafat's arrival in Gaza, the standard of living in the strip fell by 25 percent, and more than half of the area's residents claimed to have been happier under Israeli rule. The launch of the second intifada six years later dealt the death blow to the economic and institutional gains that Israel bequeathed. In an apparent departure from this destructive path, in the summer of 2007, PA Prime Minister Salam Fayyad embarked on the first true state-building effort in Palestinian history. And he has had some
______________________ “Paradoxically, it was Israel's occupation of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip during the June 1967 war that laid the groundwork for Palestinian civil society.” ______________________ Jewish underground movements within a fortnight from Israel's independence, incorporating them into the newly established Israeli Defense Forces. Following statehood, even if Abbas were to make a genuine commitment to reform, Hamas would continue to defy his tenuous authority; not only does the group rule the Gaza Strip, which it has transformed into an Islamist micro-state, but it also wields considerable power in the West Bank. Small wonder that recent surveys show that more Palestinians in east Jerusalem, who are entitled to Israeli social benefits and are free to travel across Israel's pre-1967 borders, would rather become citizens of the Jewish state than citizens of a new Palestinian one. Two thirds of them believe that a unilateral declaration of Palestinian independence backed by the U.N. would have no positive effect. And they're right. Unfortunately the ramifications—increased conflict with Israel and a deepening rift in an already divided Palestinian society—are manifold. Once again, the Palestinian leadership is leading its people astray. Efraim Karsh is research professor of Middle East and Mediterranean Studies at King's College London, director of the Middle East Forum (Philadelphia) and author, most recently, of Palestine Betrayed.
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Drilling Begins in Tamar Gas Fields Apple Removes ‘Jew’ iPhone App From Stores in France Israel began drilling in the Tamar natural gas fields despite the presence of Turkish warships
The computer firm Apple has removed one of its iPhone apps called "Jew or Not Jew" from stores in France.
BY GAVRIEL QUEENANN Israel began drilling in the Tamar natural gas field on Monday despite threats from the Turkish government and the presence of Turkish destroyers nearby. rilling will be carried out in partnership with the Turkish navy," Israel's minister of National Infrastructure, Uzi Landau, joked to Israel's Hebrew-language Maariv. "There is no turning back." Last week Eilat-Ashkelon Pipeline Company (EAPC) chairman Amos Yaron blasted Landau saying an inability to make decisions was delaying development of the Tamar gas field until 2013. The move comes as officials in Israel and Cyprus negotiate terms for exploratory drilling in "Block 12," which lies in a section of the Tamar field that extends into Cyprus' territorial waters. Energy analyst Amir Foster told Israel's Channel 2 the deal between Jerusalem and Nicosia will likely be finalized in the coming weeks, but noted drilling in Block 12 was purely exploratory and held no guarantees. Turkey, amid a diplomatic row with Jerusalem manufactured in Ankara, has threatened to interdict drilling by Israel in Cypriot waters irrespective of Nicosia's wishes. Turkey continues to lay a widely rejected territorial claim to parts of Cyprus. The Tamar gas drilling platform where drilling began Monday is located approxi-
pple spokesman Tom Neumayr told VOA Wednesday the app violates local law and is no longer available in France. He added, however, that the application is available in other Apple stores around the world. The move came after French anti-racism group, SOS Racisme, called for Apple to remove the app, claiming it is racist and violates French law enacted in the years after the Holocaust.
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The Tamar gas drilling platform where drilling began Monday is located approximately 35 kilometers north of the Leviathan drilling platform. mately 35 kilometers north of the Leviathan drilling platform. It is a joint venture of Houston's Noble Energy Inc., which holds a 36% stake, and a consortium of Israel's Avner Oil and Gas Exploration Ltd., Delek Drilling Ltd., and Isramco Negev 2 Ltd. Partnership, who own the remaining shares. The drilling at the Tamar platform, which will be done in stages, is expected to take about one year with Tamar expected to begin producing natural gas by the end of 2012, the Noble website said. The field is estimated to contain up to 9 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. ISRAELNATIONALNEWS.COM
New ‘Kosher’ Facebook Website Hacked
PRO-ARAB COMPUTER VANDALS HACKED THE NEW “KOSHER” FACEBOOK SITE THAT SEPARATES MEN AND WOMEN AND BANS IMPROPER PICTURES BY TZVI BEN GEDALYAHU Pro-Arab computer vandals hacked the new “kosher” Facebook site that separates men and women and bans improper pictures. group calling itself “Challenger HackerS” plastered the hareidi-religious website with the words “Free Palestine” on the Sabbath, when Jews are prohibited from using the Internet. The hackers also warned the owner of this site that “I am gonna get this PC soon or later…. Palestine is the best of the best.” The “Faceglat” site was recently
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instructing female users to click an arrow pointing to the left and male users to click on an arrow pointing to the right. “One day, a couple of friends paid me a visit, and while we were chatting the young woman said it was a pity that there was no website where she could share pictures with her female friends without other people being able to see them,” the site’s creator Yaakov Swisa told WorldCrunch. “We started thinking about a religious social network, where there would be no indecent pictures, and which would guarantee that men could not see photos posted by women, and vice versa.” Software inspects the site to make sure there are no pictures of people without enough clothes. “Orthodox Jews need the Internet, at home and at work alike,” Swisa said. “My Web site allows them to browse freely, while offering them maximum security. It also reassures parents who worry about their children going on pages that everybody can consult.” He said the site soon will be translated into other languages. He was interviewed shortly before Faceglat was hacked. ISRAELNATIONALNEWS.COM
______________________ “Did you know that Bob Dylan is Jewish? Of course I did! But was Marilyn Monroe really Jewish, and what about Harrison Ford?” ______________________ The app, which is available in the United States and elsewhere in Europe for about $1, is designed to let users know which celebrities or business leaders are Jewish. According to the iTunes online music store, the app, created by Johann Levy, is intended for fun and does "not aim to prove the superiority of any racial group." The app has a Star of David logo and includes the categories "Popular Jews" and "Random Jew." An app, short for application, is a popular digital shortcut for computers and mobile phones that lets users access particular information.
Launched August 9, the "Jew or Not Jew" app is advertised by iTunes on a special offer at 50 percent off, and starts with the following description: "This app is only intended for fun. Nothing more! Hey, did you know that Bob Dylan is Jewish? Of course I did! But was Marilyn Monroe really Jewish, and what about Harrison Ford?" Some information for this report was provided by AP. WWW.VOANEWS.COM
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September 23, 2011
METROPOLITAN AREA RABBIS HIT THE ROAD TO PROVIDE REFLECTIONS ON TESHUVA, 10/2 Call it “Rabbis Changing Places,” call it “Rabbis on the Road,” call it “Bima to Bima,” or call it simply, “Reflections on Teshuva,” but once again this year, in a program that began in 2005, some of the New York area’s most distinguished pulpit rabbis will exchange places on October 2, the Sunday before Yom Kippur, to provide their “Reflections on Teshuva,” an Orthodox Union signature High Holy Day program. In many cases, the rabbis will be visiting synagogues in their own or neighboring communities. he sessions will take place between Mincha and Maariv. Teshuva means “repentance,” and is the central theme of the Yamim Nara’im – the Days of Awe -encompassing Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. Reflections on Teshuva is a program of the Orthodox Union’s Department of Community Services | Jewish Community Programs. According to Frank Buchweitz, OU National Director of Community Services and Special Projects, “This unique arrangement will allow these experienced and always stimulating rabbis to share profound thoughts on a profound subject teshuva - with new audiences. The period between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur is a time of personal introspection and this OU program will present a unique opportunity for communities to hear from visiting rabbis to supplement what they have learned from their own shul’s Rav.”
• Manhattan: Rabbi Allen Schwartz, Congregation Ohab Zekek, Manhattan, to Young Israel of the West Side (Manhattan); Rabbi Dovid Cohen, Young Israel of the West Side, to Congregation Ohab Zedek; • Queens: Rabbi Yoel Schonfeld, Young Israel of Kew Gardens Hills to Young Israel of Hillcrest; Rabbi Dr. Richard Weiss, Young Israel of Hillcrest, to Young Israel of Kew Gardens Hills; • Brooklyn: Rabbi Etan Tokayer, Kingsway Jewish Center, Brooklyn to Young Israel of Flatbush; Rabbi Kenneth Auman, Young Israel of Flatbush, to Kingsway Jewish
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Ohab Zedek, the OZ, where a Reflections on Teshuva program will take place.
The schedule is as follows: • Riverdale/Manhattan: Rabbi Dr. Jonathan Rosenblatt, Riverdale Jewish Center, to West Side Institutional Synagogue, Manhattan; Rabbi Shlomo Einhorn, West Side Institutional Synagogue, to Riverdale Jewish Center;
_____________________ “This unique arrangement [Reflections on Teshuva] will allow these experienced and always stimulating rabbis to share profound thoughts on a profound subject - teshuva - with new audiences.” _____________________
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• Riverdale/Westchester: Rabbi Shmuel Hain, Young Israel Ohab Zedek of North Riverdale/Yonkers, to Young Israel of New Rochelle; Rabbi Reuven Fink, Young Israel of New Rochelle, to Young Israel Ohab Zedek of North Riverdale/Yonkers;
• Five Towns: Rabbi Moshe Teitelbaum, Young Israel of Lawrence-Cedarhurst, to Congregation Bais Tefilah, Woodmere; Rabbi Shaya Richmond, Congregation Bais Tefilah, to Young Israel of LawrenceCedarhurst;
• New Jersey: Rabbi Eliezer Zwickler, Ahawas Achim Bnai Jacob & David, West Orange, to Congregation Tifereth Israel, Passaic; Rabbi Aaron Cohen, Congregation Tifereth Israel to Ahawas Achim Bnai Jacob & David;
• Five Towns: Rabbi Kenneth Hain, Congregation Beth Sholom, Lawrence, to Young Israel of North; Woodmere; Rabbi Yehuda Septimus, Young Israel of North Woodmere, to Congregation Beth Sholom;
• New Jersey: Rabbi Yaakov Luban, Congregation Ohr Torah, Edison, NJ, to Congregation Ahavas Achim, Highland Park, NJ; Rabbi Steven Miodownik, Congregation Ahavas Achim, to Congregation Ohr Torah;
• Queens/New Jersey: Rabbi Marc Penner, Young Israel of Holliswood (Queens) to Congregation Keter Torah, Teaneck; Rabbi Shalom Baum, Congregation Keter Torah, to Young Israel of Holliswood;
• New Jersey: Rabbi Uri Goldstein, Ahavat Achim Orthodox Congregation, Fair Lawn, NJ to Congregation Shomrei Torah, Fairlawn; Rabbi Benjamin Yudin, Congregation Shomrei Torah, to Ahavat Achim Orthodox Congregation;
• Queens: Rabbi Aryeh Sokoloff, Kew Gardens Adath Yeshurun Synagogue to Young Israel of Forest Hills; Rabbi Leonard Oppenheimer, Young Israel of Forest Hills, to Kew Gardens Adath Yeshurun Synagogue; • Great Neck/Queens: Rabbi Dale Polakoff, Great Neck Synagogue to Young Israel of Jamaica Estates; Rabbi Shlomo Hochberg, Young Israel of Jamaica Estates, to Great
Shana tova u’metukah!
Rabbi Dovid Cohen, Rabbi of the Young Israel of the West Side in Manhattan, will be visiting the OZ for Reflections on Teshuva.
• Monsey: Rabbi Ari Jacobson, Young Israel of Monsey and Wesley Hills, to Congregation Bais Torah, Suffern; Rabbi Yisroel Gottlieb, Congregation Bais Torah, to Young Israel of Monsey and Wesley Hills.
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MAGEN DAVID ADOM FACILITY NAMED IN MAYOR BLOOMBERG’S FATHER’S MEMORY American Friends of Magen David Adom, Magen David Adom in Israel and their special guest, New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, will officially dedicate the completely rebuilt and modernized William H. Bloomberg Jerusalem MDA Station on Sunday evening, October 23, at 6:00 pm. nvited to join with Mayor Bloomberg in opening the new facility named in memory of his father are Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Shimon Peres and other key government ministers, as well as Mayor Nir Barkat of Jerusalem and U.S. Ambassador Dan Shapiro. The opening of the William H. Bloomberg Jerusalem MDA Station will be a milestone not just in the history and to the benefit of Jerusalem, but will be a milestone for MDA and the State of Israel. Jerusalem is not only Israel’s capital city but also the country’s largest city. The facility was first constructed in 1963, and renovated and expanded in 1970 to serve a population of approximately 300,000. Today, the Jerusalem region counts more than 1.2 million residents. When Mayor Bloomberg and American Friends of Magen David Adom joined together to undertake the dramatic reconstruction and modernization of the MDA Jerusalem Station the facility was obsolete and insufficient to serve the city’s growing needs. Jerusalem is also Israel’s most culturally diverse city and MDA Jerusalem’s professionals and volunteers are drawn from every segment of this population, from Jews, Muslim and Christian Arabs to a wide array of other national and religious groups who all regard it as the Holy
contributions from New Yorkers who joined AFMDA in honoring Morris W. Offit in 2008, is located adjacent to the Visitor’s Center, which will feature exhibits and interactive virtual honor rolls as well as video presentations. Nearly two decades before the establishment of the State of Israel, Magen David
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Bloomberg addresses media at the February 1, 2007 cornerstone ceremony, with former Jerusalem Mayor Uri Lupolianski (behind microphone) and AFMDA National Chairman Mark D. Lebow (right). City. The newly renovated building features new pedestrian walkways, access roads and separate parking levels for private automobiles and MDA emergency service vehicles, significantly improving Magen David Adom’s ability to get its ambulances on the road to answer emergencies. Ambulance bays are located adjacent to where paramedics, EMTs and drivers will be stationed. There will be a separate bloodmobile parking area on the ground floor level with direct access to the spacious and comfortable, new
state-of-the-art Blood Collection Center. In addition to new quarters for crews, a training center and classrooms, offices and meeting rooms, there will be a new Dispatch Center, utilizing the latest GPS system to pinpoint every building in the city and its environs. The Dispatch Center will also feature MDA’s ground breaking “Motobridge” communications system that enables its staff to receive emergency calls and alerts online and from every type of communications device. The Nancy and Morris W. Offit Conference Center, built with the generous
Adom (MDA) was established as Israel’s national life saving organization. In 1940, the American Jewish community recognized the dire need to support these efforts and laid the foundation for more than seven decades of American support. Over the years, the American Friends of Magen David Adom (AFMDA) has become a vital and vibrant organization supporting MDA, raising in excess of $20 million per year. Today, there is no other organization in Israel that provides these crucial services, and there is no other American organization that supports the life saving efforts of MDA in specific, or in Israel on the whole, helping to save the lives of Israelis of all backgrounds.
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NEWS IN REVIEW INTERNATIONAL Kurds Blast Lieberman's Cynical Use of Struggle spokesman for the presidency of the semi-autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government in northern Iraq has issued a statement that "the Kurds are not rebels by order nor are they a weapon for sale to others." The statement was in response to Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman's "provocation" on the issue of taking steps against Turkey by collaborating with Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in its fight to free northern Kurdistan from Turkish rule. The spokesman stressed that the Kurds "have a cause in which we believe, and we have fought and we will fight for and for the interests of our nation." He added that Kurdistan will deal with other nations in the region on the basis of mutual respect and mutual interest.
reforms and revolutions in their countries, and are now looking to the new leadership to make meaningful changes. The so-called Deauville Partnership of G8 countries and their partners was inaugurated in the French city of Deauville last May to address the evolving political situation in the North African and Mideast region.
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G8 Reaffirms Economic and Political Support for Arab Spring he world's major industrialized nations are pledging economic and political support to five North African and Middle Eastern countries that are transitioning to democracy after revolting against their authoritarian leaders. Foreign ministers from the G8 met in New York Tuesday on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly. They were joined by ministers from several countries in the region. Speaking for the group, French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe said $80 billion has been committed to help Tunisia, Egypt, Morocco, Jordan and Libya over the next two years. Juppe also said there will be programs to help train judges and journalists, programs to help with elections, and to encourage the dialogue already begun with civil society. He said economic programs will focus on expanding trade and investment. Arab ministers at the meeting agreed that their countries face major challenges, including providing good jobs for their millions of young citizens. Many of these young men and women were leading participants in the
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Turkish Bomb Blast Kills 3, Wounds 15 powerful car bomb rocked the Turkish capital, Ankara, Tuesday, killing three people and wounding at least 15. The bomb blew up Tuesday near government buildings and a school, damaging cars and shops in the surrounding area. Turkish officials say the blast appears to have been a terrorist attack. Interior Minister Idris Naim Sahin said the intent was to inflict as much harm as possible, as the blast occurred in an area of heavy car and pedestrian traffic. No one has claimed responsibility. In New York, U.S. President Barack Obama, meeting with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, offered condolences to the victims of Tuesday's blast. He called it a reminder that terrorism exists in many parts of the world. Mr. Obama also thanked the Turkish prime minister for being a steadfast NATO ally and backing the United States in Afghanistan and Libya. Neither talked about the differences between Turkey and the United States on the issue of Palestinian statehood. Turkey supports Mahmoud Abbas' expected appeal to the United Nations General Assembly for recognition of a Palestinian state. The United States backs Israel in opposing such a move, at least before a Middle East peace deal is signed.
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Ahmadinejad: Hikers To Be Freed “Soon” ranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is insisting that two U.S. hikers jailed in the country will be freed soon, in spite of a delay in his country's judiciary. ABC news quotes Mr. Ahmadinejad as saying he had earlier promised that Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal would be freed “within the next few days” and he was still “saying the same thing.”
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He commented as he arrived in New York on Tuesday to attend a meeting of the U.N. General Assembly. Last week, Mr. Ahmadinejad said the two hikers would be released from prison soon. However, Iran's judiciary said their bail provisions were still under review. Earlier Tuesday, a lawyer for the two men said he was still waiting for the return of a second judge who needed to sign their release order. Masoud Shafiei said he had hoped to complete the paperwork on a $1 million bail but the judge had not returned from leave. In August, Tehran sentenced Bauer and Fattal to eight years in prison on spying convictions, saying they had illegally crossed into the country from Iraq. The two hikers were arrested in 2009 along with a third American, Sarah Shourd. She was freed on $500,000 bail last year and returned to the United States. The three Americans have always proclaimed their innocence and say they were hiking in the mountains of northern Iraq while on vacation. They said that if they crossed the unmarked border into Iran, it was by mistake.
Israeli Success: Nigeria Will Abstain in the UN srael scored one success on Tuesday in its diplomatic efforts to block a declaration of a Palestinian state in the UN, after Nigeria decided to abstain in Friday’s vote in the UN Security Council. Defense Minister Ehud Barak’s office made the announcement of Nigeria’s decision, following a meeting in New York between Barak and Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan.
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ISRAEL IMF predicts lower Israel GDP growth in 2012 he IMF predicts that Israel's GDP growth will slow to 3.2% in 2012 from 4.8% in 2011. The figures appear in the World Economic Outlook for September 2011, published on the eve of the World Bank-IMF Annual Meeting. The IMF also says that Israel's inflation
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rate will rise from 2.7% in 2010 to 3.4% in 2011 and fall back to 1.6% in 2012. It predicts that Israel's unemployment will fall from an average of 6.7% in 2010 to 5.9% in 2011 and 5.8% in 2012. The IMF predicts that Iraq will have the fastest GDP growth in the Middle East, at 9.6% in 2011 and 12.5% in 2012. It predicts that Egypt, in the wake of the collapse of the Mubarak regime, will see its GDP growth rate tumble from 5.1% in 2010 to 1.2% this year and 1.8% in 2012, mainly due to the slump in tourism.
PA Arabs to Hold Protest March housands of Palestinian Authority Arabs are expected to march on Wednesday from the grave of former PA Chairman Yasser Arafat to the center of Ramallah, in support of the PA’s unilateral statehood bid. Even bigger protest marches are expected to be held on Friday night when Abbas addresses the UN General Assembly.
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Fire in the Mann Auditorium in Tel Aviv fire broke out on Tuesday evening on the third floor of the Mann Auditorium in Tel Aviv. Large firefighting teams were called to the scene. There were reports of injuries or of people trapped in the building.
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State: Order to Listen to Women Singing Legal he State Attorney's Office asked the High Court Tuesday not to intervene in the IDF decision to dismiss Yoel Glickman, a religious soldier, from Officer's Training Course, after he walked out of a military event because a woman was on stage singing. The order Glickman to remain seated in the hall, which Glickman disobeyed, "is not an obviously illegal one and therefore even if the appellant had some kind of reservation, he was obliged to obey his commanders' orders," the State said in its reply to Glickman's motion to reinstate him. The principle of modesty in Jewish Halakha forbids men from hearing women sing, although there are exceptions and varying interpretations of this rabbinical ruling.
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NEWS IN REVIEW NATIONAL Immigration Appeals Panel Upholds Deportation of Ex-Ukrainian Nazi U.S. immigration appeals panel has upheld the deportation order against a Ukrainian man accused of murdering Jews during World War II. A judge in January ordered 90-year-old John Kalymon to leave the country. The Justice Department says Kalymon rounded up and shot Jews when he volunteered for the Nazi-sponsored Ukrainian Auxiliary Police in L'viv from 1941 through 1944. Justice officials say he lied about his past when he emigrated to the United States from Germany in 1949. Kalymon, who lives in the midwestern state of Michigan, has denied the charges. He can appeal the deportation order to a federal court. Justice Department officials say they will work tirelessly to ensure that Holocaust perpetrators cannot find safe haven in the United States.
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Military Officials Say Budget Cuts ‘Tough’ but Doable .S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta says it will be “very difficult” to cut more than $450 billion over the
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next decade from the nation's defense budget, but he says he also sees it as an opportunity to reshape U.S. armed forces for the future. Panetta told reporters Tuesday that defense spending has nearly doubled in the 10 years of war in Afghanistan and Iraq. He said finding hundreds of billions of dollars in savings will involve “tough trade-offs,” but he called it an opportunity to re-examine military priorities and turn the U.S. armed forces into a smaller and more agile force. Speaking at the same news conference, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Admiral Mike Mullen said he believes it is “achievable” and “responsible” to make the congressionally mandated spending cuts. But Mullen said he fears that any additional “devastating” cuts would make the military unable to effectively do its job. The $450 billion figure was part of a compromise agreement earlier this year that requires drastic spending cuts in return for raising the U.S. borrowing limit. That agreement also called for cutting an additional $500 billion from the national security budget if lawmakers cannot agree on a targeted deficit reduction plan.
Prayer at Lubavitcher Rebbe's Tomb Ahead of PA's UN Bid s the Palestinian Authority prepares to present its request for recognition of statehood to the United Nations, a delegation of Israelis led by MK Danny
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Danon (Likud) arrived on Monday at the grave of the Lubavitcher Rebbe in Queens, New York, to pray that the PA’s unilateral move is thwarted. The Israeli representatives lit candles and prayed for the success of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, who will land in New York on Wednesday and is scheduled to speak in the UN before the vote on the Palestinian statehood bid.
In August, fighters for Libya's provisional authority overran the Libyan dictator's compound in Tripoli. Battles continue in a handful of strongholds of Moammar Gadhafi as the country's National Transitional Council develops an interim government to rule until elections are held. An NTC representative will represent Libya's seat in the General Assembly this week.
U.S. Calls Libya 'Lesson' in International Unity
Study: BP Oil Still Fresh on Gulf
resident Barack Obama says his administration will support the people of Libya as they build a "free, democratic and prosperous" future. Obama said in remarks prepared for a Libya Contact Group meeting Tuesday at the United Nations that Libya will have a "friend and partner" that will assist them in developing security, providing humanitarian aid and peacefully transitioning to democracy. The president also added that Libya is a "lesson" in what the international community can achieve when it stands together as one against injustice. United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is chairing a meeting of the Friends of Libya group Tuesday, as the U.N. gets ready to deploy a political support mission to Tripoli. The U.N. Security Council passed a resolution in March authorizing countries to use "all necessary measures" to protect civilians in Libya.
new study says balls of tar from last year's BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico are not breaking down as fast as officials had expected. Auburn University researchers say oil samples that washed up on the beach after Tropical Storm Lee earlier this month appeared very similar to fresh oil deposits taken from the beach more than a year ago. They say their data contradicts the widely held belief that submerged oil, which gushed for nearly three months from a hole in the sea floor drilled in the BP-operated Macondo Prospect, has "substantially" broken down. BP has not commented on the new study. The company was out cleaning the beaches earlier this month after Tropical Storm Lee washed up remnants of the April 2010 spill. The 85-day underwater leak that spewed nearly 5 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico is the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history.
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SELICHOT SERVICES WITH YEHUDA GREEN SATURDAY NIGHT, SEPT 24, 2011, AT ABOUT MIDNIGHT VENUE: WEST SIDE INSTITUTIONAL SYNAGOGUE, 120 W. 76TH ST., NEW YORK, NY SUGGESTED MINIMUM DONATION: $15 CONTACT: THE CARLEBACH SHUL, 212-580-2391; WWW.CARLEBACHSHUL.ORG
Join world-renowned singer and cantor Yehuda Green as he leads the inspirational pre–Rosh Hashanah Selichot services in the style of Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach. Sponsored by the Carlebach Shul; all proceeds will be used to further the activities of the shul.
KINUS TESHUVA (REFLECTIONS ON TESHUVA) SYNAGOGUE PROGRAMS SUNDAY OCTOBER 2 2011, TZOM GEDALIAH, BETWEEN MINCHA AND MA’ARIV
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YACHAD DINNER AND AWARDS PRESENTATION WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 9, 2011 6PM RECEPTION; DINNER AND PROGRAM: 7:30 PM VENUE: BOHEMIAN NATIONAL HALL 321 EAST 73 STREET NEW YORK CITY, NY 10021
You are cordially invited to attend the Annual Yachad National Dinner & Awards Presentation, a gala evening of tribute. The event will be l’zecher nishmas Marilyn David a”h. The IVDU High School will be renamed in her memory by her family. Sarah Taub will receive the Professional Leadership Award, and Dr. Ron Hoffman will receive the Our Way Award. Invitation and online registration to follow! For more information, contact grossmane@ou.org
ONGOING EVENTS
For more info: (212) 294-8330.
Venues: Participating Synagogues Include: West Side Institutional Synagogue, 120 West 76th Street, New York, NY 10023;
TUESDAY NIGHT LEARNING PROGRAM AT OZ
Young Israel of the West Side, 210 West 91st Street, New York, NY 10024;
TUESDAY 7:00 PM VENUE: CONGREGATION OHEV TZEDEK - OZ 118 WEST 95TH STREET NEW YORK, NY CONTACT 212.749.5150 WEBSITE: WWW.OZNY.ORG
Young Israel of Hillcrest, 169-07 Jewel Avenue, Hillcrest, NY 11365;
7:00 - 7:30 PM - Introduction to Halacha with Moshe Schwartz
Young Israel of Flatbush, 1012 Avenue I, Brooklyn, NY 11230;
7:30 - 10:00 PM - Open Beit Midrash, Chavruta Learning Partner Learning You pick the subject and we will match you with a chavruta.
September 23, 2011 8:30 - 9:30 PM - UNDERSTANDING THE DAVENING: The Vocabulary of Prayer. Hebrew Class with Joel Goldman. Learn Hebrew and become familiar with the key and common words of the prayer book to make your prayers more meaningful. 8:30 - 9:30 PM - GUEST SPEAKERS: To be announced— Check your e-mail inbox for updates. 9:00 - 10:00 PM - CHABURA CLASS FOR MEN with Rabbi Akiva Willig. _______________________________________________
TALMUD WITH REB JOSEPH WARREN EVERY MONDAY 9:00 PM VENUE: SIXTH STREET COMMUNITY SYNAGOGUE, 325 E. SIXTH STREET, NEW YORK, NY CONTACT WEBSITE: SIXTHSTREETSYNAGOGUE.ORG/CLASSES/
The Sixth Street Community Synagogue will be offering a Talmud class taught by Reb Joseph Warren, for men and women. Masechet (tractate) Megillah is a wonderful excursion through many fascinating topics. These include, of course, the background to the institution of the Purim holiday, but also the nature of sacred writing in general, torah reading, translation, the role of women, and even a classic rabbinic discussion on the use of alcohol… plus many side trips through the byways and backwaters of the stories and wisdom of our sages. No experience necessary, but all levels will enjoy this class. Don’t miss it! _______________________________________________
Congregation Bais Tefilah, 409 Edward Avenue, Woodmere, NY 11598; Mount Sinai Jewish Center of Washington Heights, 135 Bennett Avenue, New York, NY 10040; Young Israel of North Woodmere, 634 Hungry Harbor Road, North Woodmere, NY 11581;
7:45 - 8:30 PM - THE WOMEN’S CHABURA: Join the women from the community as we study the classic work of Sefer Hachinuch. With Rabbi Akiva Willig. 8:30 - 9:10 PM - AHAVAT YISRAEL FOR WOMEN with Dr. Nava Silton-Brandwein.
JASA CLUB 76 120 WEST 76TH STREET, THIRD FLOOR, 212 712-0170
JASA Club 76 is open Monday through Friday 8pm-4pm and provides a full range of activities including Theater Workshop and Improvisation, Yoga, Exercise and toning Tai Chi, Hebrew Language class, creative writing, Current Events Discussion Groups, Walking Club, Lectures, cultural events, parties trips and man other exciting opportunities. JASA 76 serves delicious hot Kosher breakfasts and full course Kosher lunches for a modest suggested donation.
Congregation Keter Torah, 600 Roemer Avenue, Teaneck, NJ 07666; Young Israel of Forest Hills, 7100 Yellowstone Boulevard, Forest Hills, NY 11375; Young Israel of Jamaica Estates, 83-10 188th Street, Jamaica Estates, NY 11423; In a planned mass exchange, shuls from the tri-state areas will be swapping Rabbanim on Tzom Gedaliah. The Rabbanim will each be giving unique and moving shiurim on the subject of Teshuva. For a complete list and more information, contact Hannah Chornock, Program Associate 212-613-8351 _______________________________________________
THE DELEGITIMIZATION CHALLENGE: THE FORECAST FOR THE JEWISH STATE NOVEMBER 2, 2011, 7:30 PM VENUE: PARK EAST SYNAGOGUE, 163 EAST 67TH STREET, NEW YORK, NY 10065 COST: $15 IN ADVANCE, $25 AT THE DOOR CONTACT: MARILYN GOLDMAN, 617-428-0012 EXT. 1146 OR MG@DAVIDPROJECT.ORG
The David Project invites you to a lecture on Israel's current crisis and future prospects by the internationally renowned Israeli author, Yossi Klein Halevi, at Park East Synagogue in Manhattan. Lecture followed by dessert reception. Limited space available; reservations strongly recommended. To register, visit www.thedavidproject.org/events.
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we’re glad people outside of the kosher market have discovered this fantastic wine.” Indeed. As Lil Wayne said in Drake and DJ Khaled’s recent song, I’m On 1, “Mazel Tov!”
‘Friday Night Dinner’ may be coming to U.S. TV Twilight Star Kellan Lutz and Other Celebrities Travel to Israel nternationally-acclaimed celebrities, Kellan Lutz (of “Twilight” fame), his mother, actor Miguel Ferrer (Dr. Garret Macy on “Crossing Jordan”), the popular singing duet: Columbian salsa sensation Carolina La O and Cuban performer Didier Hernandez (formerly of Menudo), flew EL AL Airlines to Israel. All are first time visitors to the country except for Lutz, who fell in love with Israel on his first visit last year. While in Israel, Kellan Lutz the group is visiting the most important religious and historical sites. Their itinerary includes dinner at the Jaffa Black Out restaurant, where they are served by blind waiters and eat in total darkness. They will also see the theatrical production called “By Bread Alone,” where the performers are all blind and deaf. The celebrities will experience a scenic midnight mountain biking tour through the Old City of Jerusalem, a wine tasting at one of Israel’s award-winning wineries and many other adventurous and meaningful activities throughout the country. They are also meeting with government officials, the Israeli media, as well as Israeli film stars and producers to discuss future joint projects. The trip is sponsored by the Conference
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of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations, Americas Voices in Israel and EL AL Israel Airlines.
Roseanne Barr: Meditate With Me at Jewish Retreat Center oseanne Barr recently did an interview with Dvora Meyers of the JTA. The Emmy-award-winning comedienne and actress told Meyers she is planning to conduct a meditation retreat at the Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center in Connecticut later this month. The retreat will emphasize the softer, greener side of Judaism, and of Barr herself. Though Barr was never known for her tact, whether in character or doing standup (she was loud, crass and often politically incorrect), she will nonetheless show how she has grown. Barr began meditating 17 years ago, Roseanne Barr probably to clear her mind of all the clutter in her life. She definitely lives a bit more simply now than she used to, running a macadamia nut farm in Hawaii that she bought five years ago. Her weekly television show, “Roseanne’s Nuts,” chronicles her attempt to live a “radical and organic life.” She still posts to her blog, tweets to her fans, and writes the occasional magazine cover story. Unplugged, she is not. She says that watching tent cities crop up across Israel has heartened her. Barr
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calls Judaism a philosophy and a religion she would rather step all the way outside of rather than contend with it and try to reform it. However, her involvement with community events at the Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat center reveals openness towards tradition. “In the end,” she writes in her most recent book, “I cannot NOT be a Jew.”
Bartenura Blue: The Official Kosher Wine of Lil’ Wayne and Drake ip Hop has recently laid claim to another unlikely adoptee. ’Bartenura Blue,’ a long time Shabbat table favorite, has gained popularity in the hip hop scene, according to Jewcy.com. In the last couple of years, Moscato has received a lot of attention. It’s been mentioned by Drake, Lil’ Kim and Kanye West, and even makes cameos in one of Drake’s videos. How did this happen? People suspect Drake as the taste-maker responsible. After all, he did have a bar-mitzva. But that’s just one theory. Although the quirky duality of the brand’s market hasn’t received much attention, it hasn’t gone completely unnoticed by some Jews. Merisa Fink of Jewcy.com writes that she saw a Latina friend had posted a picture of the bottle on her Facebook wall. Ms. Fink earnestly commented, “Jovana, I’m so glad you like kosher wine!” To which Jovana responded, “I didn’t even know it was kosher!” It turns out that Bartenura even has its own unofficial Facebook fan page. Coincidence? Perhaps not. Bartenura is one of the higher-end brands of moscato, and at about $13 a bottle, everyone can enjoy the good life – at the Shabbat table or in ‘da club. Others think that because younger American palates are accustomed to sweeter drinks, they are more drawn to Moscato. And the sexy blue bottle doesn’t hurt. What does the Bartenura think of all this unlikely attention? David Levy of the Royal Wine Corporation says, “Bartenura Moscato has been around for about 20 years now. We’re the original premium moscato in a blue bottle. While we introduced the product as a kosher wine, at the end of the day,
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ccording to reports from JTA.org, the traditional Shabbat dinner might be coming to American television. Greg Daniels, who adapted “The Office” for American viewers, reportedly is in talks to bring the BBC program “Friday Night Dinner” to the NBC network. The British comedy, which has been renewed for a second season, is about the Goodmans, a traditional but not strictly observant Jewish family. Every Friday night the two adult sons, broth- Greg Daniels ers Adam and Jonny, come home to eat Shabbat dinner with their parents, and promptly revert to their fighting adolescent selves while their parents nose into the sad state of their love lives.
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Israeli Film Takes Three Prizes at SF Shorts sraeli singer Rita won the Jury Special Recognition for Acting award at the San Francisco International Festival of Short Films for her lead role in the film, Ben is Back. The movie picked up two other honors at the festival, the Gold Jury Award and the Audience Award. Though not her first acting role, Rita was nevertheless surprised by the prize. "I came to [the] film because I was enchanted by the role," she told the Israeli media. "Winning is a big sur- Rita prise. I wasn't aware of the fact that the film was included in the festival and I'm very excited." Ben is Back tells the story of a single mother struggling to deal with the forced hospitalization of her mentally unbalanced son, Ben. When he is eventually released, the mother and her son embark on an emotional journey which forces her to realize that some people can never really change. The film was directed by Elad Zakai, a Tel Aviv University film graduate with dozens of short films and television shows already under his belt. "The awards given to the movie are a huge compliment to me and to the people I worked with," Zakai told Ynet.
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How to play Sudoku? One simple rule: Fill in the grid so that every row, every column, and every 3x3 box contains the digits 1 through 9
TIPS FOR THE BEGINNER SUDOKU PLAYER • Make sure you have some free time ahead. • Resist the temptation of guess and use logic instead! • Solving time for the Sudoku is typically from 10 to 30 minutes, depending on your Soduku skill and experience, so don’t quit if you’re Soduku-ing for 5 minutes and getting nowhere. • Use a pencil, you will make mistakes.
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NYPD HOLDS SECURITY BRIEFING FOR HIGH HOLY DAYS The city gears up in preparation for Rosh Hashanah
Instructions included reminders to commanders to let their officers know certain important things about Jewish restrictions during these times, such as that observant Jews are not permitted to ride in vehicles or utilize telephones. Additionally, a list of
BY TOVA KRAUSZ New York City Police Department held their annual High Holy Days meeting last Tuesday (Sept. 13) in the auditorium at One Police Plaza. The program included remarks by Chief Chaplain Rabbi Dr. Alvin Kass, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Police Commissioner Ray Kelley, and others, including the chairman and publisher of the New York Daily News. t. Tony Giorgio introduced the Chief Chaplain, who began his remarks with a story about three clergy who attended a funeral and afterward discussed how they would like to be remembered. The others said they’d like to be remembered as good men who helped others. The rabbi said he would just like one person to notice and say, “Looks like he’s moving!” Having lightened the mood with the laughter of those present, the Chief Chaplain declared the police department on the move and ready to do what was needed this holiday season. He continued with another story, connecting it to the adage, “We never know how much we have to give until we start giving away. The more you give, the more you have.” Rabbi Dr. Kass quoted one of the teachings of the Kotsker Rebbe, who said that there is nothing more whole than a broken heart. We just observed the anniversary of 9/11, and all our hearts were broken on that occasion. But we have grown and become stronger. The Chaplain concluded with the blessing, “May we all be resolved to repair the broken places in our world and be stronger this year. Shanah Tova U’Metukah.” Mayor Bloomberg addressed the crowd next, speaking of the memorials and remembrances that just occurred reminding everyone of all the intolerance in the world. The Mayor praised the city of New York, saying that here, we put aside our differences and have respect for one another’s cultures. Still, vandalism and other outrages occur. We should respect everyone’s right to worship, or not, as they choose. As we approach the
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New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly discussed some of the increased security measures that would be taken this season. High Holy Days, the Mayor himself is preparing to participate and observe. This is also one of the times of year when the police prepare to increase security at many synagogues and Jewish institutions throughout the city, as synagogues are considered potential terror targets. Fortunately, there are no threats as of now, but the city will nonetheless be prepared. The plan is simple: deal with any threat full-on so New Yorkers can go about their business. Protect the freedoms our enemies oppose with an aggressive crime-fighting strategy so that everyone should feel free to observe the holidays comfortably. Mayor Bloomberg certainly plans to.
Police Commissioner Ray Kelly then discussed some of the increased security measures that would be taken this season. Officers this month will increase patrols near Jewish institutions and continue checks at transit points, such as rail and subway stations. They will continue the increased security measures put in place for the anniversary of 9/11. Pamphlets were handed out to precinct commanders and other police personnel designed to provide information and guidance. The pamphlets included descriptions of holidays, approximate dates of observance, observance rules, and suggested areas to focus deployment of resources.
police personnel including cadets, youth officers, and anti-crime scooters should be encouraged to make personal visits to all Houses of Worship within their precinct. Commanders were warned about the increased opportunity for burglaries during the day when congregants would be attending services. There are also certain days when people traditionally visit the cemetery, so adequate coverage for the increased pedestrian traffic should be provided. Sabbath restrictions were covered, and an explanation of all activities, from Selichot to Tashlich to Simchat Torah, was given, with advice as to when and where special attention by police should be given. For example, during the time when people would be buying esrogim and lulavim, large amounts of cash would be exchanged, as the sets are very costly. Therefore, special attention should be given to the locations where they are sold. The pamphlet concluded with a helpful High Holy Days calendar. Observance of Rosh Hashanah will take place after sundown Sept. 28.
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RICK PERRY CALLS OBAMA’S MID EAST POLICY “DANGEROUS AND NAIVE” Continued from Cover Middle East policy of appeasement has encouraged such an ominous act of bad faith. Simply put, we would not be here today at the precipice of such a dangerous move if the Obama Policy in the Middle East wasn’t naïve, arrogant, misguided and dangerous. “The Obama policy of moral equivalency, which gives equal standing to the grievances of Israelis and Palestinians, including the orchestrators of terrorism, is a dangerous insult to our oldest and strongest ally in the Middle East.” Perry further blamed President Barack Obama for demanding concessions from Israel, thereby “encouraging” Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas to avoid direct talks with Israel. He stated that “there is no middle ground between our allies and those who seek their destruction … By proposing ‘indirect talks’ through the U.S. rather than between Palestinian leaders and Israel, this administration encouraged the Palestinians to shun direct talks.” Perry further criticized the Obama Administration for the absurd suggestion that Israel go back to 1967 borders, saying, “It was wrong for this Administration to suggest the 1967 borders should be the starting point for Israeli-Palestinian negotiations. When you consider this suggestion was
_____________________ Gov. Perry: “It was wrong for this Administration to suggest the 1967 borders should be the starting point for Israeli-Palestinian negotiations. When you consider this suggestion was made on the eve of the Israeli Prime Minister’s visit, we see in this American Administration a willingness to isolate a close ally and to do so in a manner that is insulting and naïve.” _____________________ made on the eve of the Israeli Prime Minister’s visit, we see in this American Administration a willingness to isolate a close ally and to do so in a manner that is insulting and naïve.” The governor further stated that “by injecting the issue of 1967 borders in addition to a construction freeze in East Jerusalem and Israeli settlements, the Obama Administration has put Israel in a position of weakness and taken away their flexibility to offer concessions as part of the negotiation process … the Palestinians are exploiting the instability in the Middle East hoping to achieve their objective without concessions or direct negotiations with Israel. “The reason is simple: if they perceive they can get what they want from the UN without making any concessions why should they negotiate with Israel? This bargaining tactic adopted by the Obama Administration severely limits Israel’s options.” Perry made the point that while the Obama administration is right to finally agree to fight the Arab resolution at the UN by vowing to block with a Security Council veto, it bears repeating that we wouldn’t be here today if they had stuck to some basic
Texas Governor and Republican presidential hopeful Rick Perry. principles concerning Palestinian statehood. “First, Palestinian leaders must publicly affirm Israel’s right to exist, and to exist as a Jewish state; Second, President Abbas must persuade all factions including Hamas to renounce acts of terrorism and release kidnapped Israeli Gilad Shalit; Third, Palestinian statehood must be established only through direct negotiations between the Palestinian leadership and the nation of Israel.” The Obama Administration has ostensibly done the opposite, subtly and not-sosubtly discouraging direct negotiations. Certainly it has not insisted on these principles. As Perry says, “the Obama Administration has appeased the Arab Street at the expense of our own national security interests. They have sowed instability that threatens the prospects of peace. Israel’s security is critical to America’s security. We must not forget it was Israel that took out the nuclear capabilities of Iraq in 1981 and Syria in 2007. In both instances, their actions made the free world safer.” The governor then addressed today’s greatest concern, that of a nuclear Iran. “Today, the greatest threat to the security of Israel and, by extension, a threat to America, is the Iranian government developing a nuclear arsenal. One thing is clear: we must stop Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. Economic sanctions must be tightened and increased and all options must remain on the table to stop a brutally repressive regime from acquiring a nuclear capability. To date, we have fumbled our greatest opportunity for regime change. As average Iranian citizens were marching on Tehran in the Green Revolution in 2009, America was wasting precious time on a naïve policy of outreach to both the Iranian and Syrian governments.” It was this move that Perry spoke of in a recent report for the Wall Street Journal. There, he said that President Obama’s Middle East policies–distancing himself from Israel while trying to engage Syria and Iran–have resulted in the Palestinian Authority leaders “signaling that they have no interest in a two-state solution.” “Iranian leadership may have looked quite different today if America had done everything in its power to provide diplomatic and moral support to encourage the growing movement of dissidents who sought freedom. Perry claimed that “our actions in recent years have destabilized the Middle East. We have been complacent in encouraging revolt against hostile governments in Iran and Syria and we have been slow to recognize the risks posed by the new regime in Egypt and the increasingly strained relationship between Israel and Turkey.
“It is vitally important for America to preserve alliances with moderate Muslim regimes and Muslim leaders who seek to preserve peace and stability in the region. But today, neither adversaries nor allies alike know where America stands. Our muddle of a foreign policy has created greater uncertainty in the midst of the ‘Arab Spring.’ And
our policy of isolating and undermining Israel has only encouraged our adversaries in their aggression.” Perry continued with a list of steps America could take to attempt to repair the damage. “First, every nation within the UN must know America stands with Israel and the Oslo Accord principle of direct negotiations without equivocation. Second, America must make it clear that a declaration of Palestinian Statehood in violation of the spirit of the Oslo Accords could jeopardize our funding of UN operations. Third, the Palestinians must know their gambit comes with consequences in particular that America will have to reconsider the $4 billion in assistance we have provided to the Palestinians over the last 17 years. Fourth, we should close the PLO office in Washington if the UN grants the standing of a Palestinian state. And fifth, we must signal to the world, including nations like Turkey and Egypt whom we have considered allies in recent years, that we won’t tolerate aggression against Israel.” Perry concluded by reiterating the need to change the policy of appeasement towards the Palestinians, as it has led to nothing but trouble for America and its closest Middle Eastern ally. He emphasized the need to strengthen our ties with Israel “and in the process establish a robust American position in the Middle East characterized by a new firmness and a new resolve. If America does not head off the aggression of forces hostile to Israel we will only embolden them.” “That,” says Perry, “would be a tragic mistake.”
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September 23, 2011
‘Thinking’ Car Key Predicts Driver Actions MICRO COMPUTER KNOWS WHEN TO LOCK, UNLOCK BUICK LACROSSE DOORS
2011 Buick LaCrosse When Dave Proefke gets locked out of his car, it's called "research." Proefke, a General Motors Technical Fellow, leads a team that has developed an advanced wireless car key that automatically knows when to lock and unlock the doors on the 2011 Buick LaCrosse and selected other General Motors models. t does a lot of the thinking for you," said Proefke. "It tries to determine your intended action and perform that action for you." The new key doesn't require a button press or even a keyhole. Instead it sends out a constant stream of data to the vehicle that includes where the key is located. That helps the car decide whether the doors should be locked or unlocked based on pre-programmed behavioral scenarios. The LaCrosse can be equipped with push-button start with smart key technology. It knows whether or not the key is present inside the car. If it is, theft-deterrent encrypted coding allows the vehicle to start. The highly sophisticated system removes many of the mechanical systems such as wiring and cylinders that can make a vehicle easier
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ARE WE TOO AFRAID OF SUICIDE? BY JACOB M. APPEL As a psychiatry resident, I often help decide whether to admit emergency-room patients to my hospital’s inpatient mentalhealth unit. All too often, it boils down to one basic question: Is this patient at risk of killing himself? Increasingly, I’ve come to see that as the wrong question. t typically means ignoring other issues: Will the patient or society benefit from such hospitalization? Does the patient want to be admitted? Yes, suicide is a serious matter -- the eighth leading cause of death in the United States, it can inflict grave emotional damage on surviving family. Yet a fixation with suicide prevention has transformed psychiatric care over the last 40 years -- often at the expense of other aspects of patient wellbeing. A generation ago, patients left hospitals on day-passes as a crucial step on the road toward recovery, because fresh air and sunshine work wonders for many depressed souls. Depressives leaving the hospital for the afternoon -- sometimes unsupervised -- in 1970 were no less likely to harm themselves than they are today. But psychiatry back then was more willing to take that risk for the sake of the many patients who might benefit. “Threat to self ” is by far the leading reason that patients are involuntarily admitted to psychiatric hospitals today -- and among the main reasons they’re held against their will. A psychiatric culture afraid of wrongfuldeath litigation prefers that 1,000 patients lose their short-term freedom if one potentially suicidal patient is kept safe. In fact, there’s little evidence that involuntary hospitalizations reduce long-term suicide rates. They may have the opposite effect: Patients who have been held involuntarily often resent their loss of freedom, or fear future commitment -- and so may hide self-harming thoughts from their therapists to avoid a return to a locked ward. Sadly, our system allows no space for the patient whose suicidal thoughts are genuine-
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Jacob M. Appel ly healthy -- a reassuring outlet that lets him know that he always has an escape from his suffering, even if he never chooses to use it. I fear this obsession with suicide is suffocating psychiatry. Many providers in private practice will no longer take patients with histories of suicide attempts, afraid of a lawsuit if a future attempt succeeds. Thus, those vulnerable individuals most in need of mental health-care have the least access. At the same time, psychiatric units are increasingly populated by anti-social malingerers who have no pressing need for hospitalization -- but know that if they claim they’re contemplating suicide, they’ll be guaranteed a comfortable bed and three hot meals a day. At a facility where I recently worked, I estimate that one in five patients who purported to be suicidal in the ER did so solely for such reasons. How has a noble profession that once concerned itself with the dynamics of the human psyche become so blinded by its focus on suicide? One explanation may be a legal system that holds psychiatrists accountable for self-inflicted deaths. An oncologist usually isn’t blamed if her
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Herbal remedies have been around for thousands of years and used by people in every country on every continent. For example, curcumin, the active ingredient in turmeric, the popular Indian spice used in curry, was reported at a recent meeting of the American College of Gastroenterology to possibly be able to reduce the incidence of diarrhea caused by Clostridium difficile in hospitalized patients. ommonly referred to as C. difficile, this germ produces a toxin (poison) that has been shown to be the cause of many cases of severe life-threatening diarrhea. While such reports about the hopeful benefits of curcumin in preventing the growth and toxin production of C. difficile are promising, and further research may show that these benefits are actually real and effective, at the present time they are not yet conclusive and further study is required. But its potential value in controlling diarrhea due to C. difficile is not the only direction of research for curcumin. Researchers at UCLA and the Salk Institute reported that curcumin, given to rabbits and rodents soon after an experimentally induced stroke may protect the brains of these animals from being damaged. Dietary supplements are considered safe by most people because they don’t require a doctor’s prescription and are available OTC “Over-The-Counter”. Herbal remedies are often incorrectly thought of as being safer than the “chemicals” in manufactured drugs and medicines because they are "natural". However, many herbal supplements contain biologically active compounds that can be
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dangerous on their own or by harmful interaction with other medicines your doctor may have prescribed for you or even with other over-the-counter remedies. As recently reported in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, they may be harmful when used in conjunction with cardiovascular medications such as antiplatelet or anticoagulant drugs. For example, ginseng decreases the effects of warfarin (Coumadin, Jantoven), while ginkgo, alfalfa, dong quai, bilberry, fenugreek, garlic, ginger and saw palmetto increase bleeding risk with warfarin, aspirin and clopidogrel (Plavix). No need to worry about alfalfa, garlic or ginger in food; it's the concentrated amounts in herbal products that are the concern. Also troublesome is echinacea, which can alter the heart's electrical rhythm when taken with the antiarrhythmia drugs amiodarone (Cordarone, Pacerone, Nexterone) or ibutilide (Corvert).
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The New York Musical Theatre Festival presents THE BIG BANK by The Seligmann Brothers BY ROBERTA HERSHENSON In a few weeks Midtown Manhattan will buzz with new musicals in the New York Musical Theatre Festival. This festival vets and invites only 30 new musicals to step up to the plate and try and make as much of a splash as possible. he Seligmann Brothers are presenting their musical entitled The Big Bank, a musical about foreclosure. According to the press release, The Big Bank revels in taking away people's homes and dreams. Stuart Stevens, a long time employee, has lost his passion for repossession and finds himself falling in love with Iris, the owner of a flower shop he's been ordered to foreclose on. Meanwhile, a radical environmentalist and his precocious 11-year old daughter, Parsley, plot their revenge on The Big Bank. The musical was originally written sixteen years ago on a dare. The end results back then made such a splash that even the New York Times took note of the unproduced work in the following press release:
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Modern Gershwins! Brothers Write Musical ONE crackles with nervous energy. The other simmers with existential angst. The two were at odds as teen-agers -- not so very long ago -- but now tread the same path of feverish inspiration. The brothers Daniel and Jacob Seligmann became artistic collaborators, co-workaholics and soul mates. They stayed home together for 14 months in the house they grew up in here, writing a musical comedy _______________________________
“Not since the Gershwin brothers have two American brothers collaborated on a musical together.” _______________________________ called "The Big Bank." Daniel, 23, wrote the book and most of the lyrics; Jacob, 20, composed the music and helped with the words. Listening to his sons "yell, cajole, cry, bargain, work, research and create" in their bedrooms upstairs, Joel Seligmann, their father, said he knew something special was going on. "Not since the Gershwin brothers have two American brothers collaborated on a musical together," said Mr. Seligmann, an English teacher at Rye Neck High School. The Seligmann brothers like the comparison. They talk about the "Gershwin innocence" of their show, and its feel-good story. Those who have heard the songs, which the brothers recently recorded for a demonstration tape, describe the show as a cross between "The Fantasticks" and "Little Shop of Horrors." The brothers like that comparison, too. But what the show is emphatically not, they say, is any kin to "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying," despite its business theme. "That's not an ideal by any stretch of the imagination," says Daniel, who graduated last year from the University of Michigan with a writing prize. "I know very few people who aspire to be chairmen of the board. This is more anti-business."
The Big Bank poster. Jacob, who postponed his sophomore year at Brown University to work on the musical, says, "It's about a businessman who isn't happy where he is." In "The Big Bank," the hero, Stuart Stevens, is rescued from his soulless life as the bank's foreclosure officer through his love for Iris, the flower-shop owner whose store he has been sent to repossess. The song "We Repossess," sung demoniacally to a syncopated beat, sums up the bank's philosophy. A planned bombing, a waif named Parsley and numerous plot twists leave Stuart to imagine another life. Soon he envisions "Not banks and bow ties, but sunlight and moonrise, not handshakes and white lies, but midnight and closed eyes. Iris, meanwhile, sadly confronting her empty flower shop, sings of "the calm company of rain." "Stuart sees the beauty of life in Iris," Daniel says. Growing up, the Seligmann brothers weren't close. "We didn't really like each other in high school and college," Daniel, who calls himself "the introspective one," says. "We're absolutely different. We see things on the same plane, but we do things differently." Now, however, they have a two-act musical that is ready for investors to hear. "I see it as Off Broadway," Daniel says. Jacob finished the thought, saying, "One of those nice, long-running Off Broadway shows everyone sees." Now, sixteen years later, it will premiere at the New York Musical Theatre Festival, with six performances from September 27 October 4. Directed by David Glenn Armstrong, its stars include Klea Blackhurst (Stage: Ethel Merman, Everything The Traffic Will Allow, Bingo, By Jupiter. TV: “Sesame Street,” “Law and Order: SVU”), Piper Goodeve (Anne of Green Gables, The Pursuit of Persephone. Showtime’s “Bereft”), Stacey Todd Holt (Broadway: Elf, Cry Baby, The Producers), Carly Rose Sonenclar (Broadway: Wonderland, Les Mis. Film: Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2, The Nanny Diaries. TV: “The Electric Company”), Con O’Shea-Creal (Irving Berlin's White Christmas), James Patterson (Broadway/Tours: Drowsy Chaperone, Beauty and the Beast, State Fair, Cats), and Alex Puette (National Tour: Young Frankenstein, Legally Blonde). Performances will take place at The Theater at St. Clements (423 W 46 Street). Tickets are $25 and available at nymf.org or by calling 866-811-4111. For more information about the festival please visit www.nymf.org. For more information about The Big Bank please visit www. http://thebigbank.net/ To speak with The Seligmann Brothers or the cast of The Big Bank, please contact Springer Associates PR at 212 354 4660 / joe@springerassociatespr.com
September 23, 2011
The Israeli Economy from the Foundation of the State through the 21st Century by Paul Rivlin Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. 288 pp. $90 ($31.99, paper)
REVIEWED BY STEVEN PLAUT UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA
Rivlin, a senior research fellow at the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, provides an introduction to Israeli economic history for those unfamiliar with the subject. His book covers both the economy and society of the pre-state and postindependence periods with emphasis on its early years. Separate chapters are focused on Israel and the Palestinians, on Israeli Arabs, and on socioeconomic inequality in the Jewish state. ivlin is a prolific writer who has done interesting work on economic history, but economic policy analysis is not his forte. Hence the volume is weak when it comes to asking and answering why certain financial policies were pursued. Additionally, Rivlin's ideological biases occasionally creep through, such as in his chapters on Palestinians or Israeli Arabs. For example, he fails to mention how Israel's large cash, underground economy helps explain the higher unemployment rate among Arabs who often work without reporting income. The book has other weaknesses. Much of its prose is "talking statistics" where tables of numbers are presented, and the author talks his reader through them. But Rivlin should give readers credit that they can understand a simple table or graph and concentrate instead on the implications of the statistics. It is also weak in analyzing the more interesting eco-
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nomic policy challenges and problems, both micro and macro, that Israel's economy faces and has faced. For instance, there is no discussion of the long-standing Israeli policy of exchange rate distortion and of capital market semi-nationalization. Also missing is a look at the "pro-trust" policy that once produced a proliferation of monopolies and cartels, the later privatization campaigns, nor of the implications of the very high levels of concentration of ownership of capital and nationalization. Early attempts at subordinating the Israeli economy to rigid central planning are mentioned only in passing as is Israeli protectionism and the accompanying inefficiencies that resulted from that set of policies. Balance of payments issues are raised only superficially, and this is unfortunate because Israel's growth was made possible thanks to imaginative utilization of foreign direct investment and importation of capital. Rivlin relies too heavily on sociologists while ignoring most serious economic histories of Israel, such as those by Assaf Razin, Efraim Sadka, and Nadav Halevi. Despite this, he misses significant sociological insights that would help explain important economic issues. His discussion of income inequality misses the point that much of it is a reflection of differences in age and schooling. He frequently tosses out the term "discrimination" when he really means heterogeneity and tries too hard to explain income differences that have nothing to do with discrimination. Readers interested in Israel's economic history will need to supplement Rivlin's effort with other materials.
HEBRON JEWS Memory and Conflict in the Land of Israel by Jerold S. Auerbach Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 2009. 223 pp. $34.95
REVIEWED BY MORTON KLEIN ZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA
It takes a careful and measured historian to do justice to the long history of Jewish life in Hebron and its restoration after the terrible 1929 Arab pogrom that decimated the community. Auerbach, a professor of history at Wellesley College, has succeeded. ebron is the cradle of Judaism, the resting place of the biblical patriarchs and matriarchs, and was the capital of Israel under King David before Jerusalem came to occupy that historic role. Auerbach takes the reader through the story of the recreation of the Jewish communities in the territories, established under both Labor and Likud governments. He presents a history in which successive Israeli governments failed to provide adequate protection when these communities were increasingly subjected to both random and calculated attacks by neighboring Arabs. In the Oslo and post-Oslo era, as neighboring hillsides were transferred to Palestinian control and with armed Palestinian forces in close proximity, the travails and tragedies of Hebron's Jews have only increased. Auerbach takes pains to explain the com-
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peting viewpoints of his protagonists. It is not often, for example, that one reads such a scrupulous account of the circumstances surrounding the 1994 killing of twenty-nine Muslims in Hebron's Tomb of the Patriarchs by Baruch Goldstein. Auerbach convincingly debunks widespread notions of messianic settlers, ideologically driven to terror, which collectively damn all Jews who live in these disputed territories. Instead, he locates Goldstein's acts within the man's personal history and amid rumors of an impending Arab assault on Jews. Goldstein, who, as a physician had tended to Israeli victims of terrorist attacks, including personal friends, had heard the calls for the murder of Jews rise from neighboring mosques. On the morning in question, he had been urged to prepare himself for treating a large number of anticipated casualties and decided to preempt a pogrom with a tragic and ill-conceived massacre of his own. Auerbach has written with proper dispassion on a subject close to his heart, providing an unusually useful history that can benefit anyone who wishes to acquaint themselves with an explosive subject that normally produces supercharged, one-sided prose. Book reviews courtesy of Middle East Quarterly, www.meforum.org/meq.
September 23, 2011
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Parshat Netzavim – Vayeilech PARSHA INSIGHTS
BY RABBI YISROEL CINER This week we read the double parsha of Nitzavim and Va'yeilech. Being that it is the last week before Rosh Hashana, it is quite fitting that the parsha of t'shuva {repentance} is found in our reading. ecause this mitzva {commandment} that I am commanding you today is not hidden from you nor is it distant. It is not in the heavens... It is not across the ocean... Rather, the matter is very close to you, in your mouth and your heart to do. [30:11-14]" The Kli Yakar, among other commentators, explains that these passukim {verses} are referring to the mitzvah of t'shuva {repentance}. How does the sequence of these passukim pertain to t'shuva? The Talmud [Yuma 86B] teaches that proper repentance is when one encounters the same situation with the same people in the same place and yet resists the temptation which he succumbed to previously. If so, the Kli Yakar explains, one might mistakenly think that if he sinned during a trip across the ocean, the only way to rectify that sin is by again crossing the ocean in order to encounter that same scenario. The passuk addresses that misconception by teaching that t'shuva is in fact very close to you. It's right by your mouth--it's sufficient to verbalize and confess the sin in prayer. It's right by your heart--it's sufficient to regret that which was done. Even though our mouths and hearts are very close, it's not always so easy to honestly feel regret over things that we have or haven't done... I was studying with a boy who had returned to Yeshiva for a second year of learning. By now he is committed to mitzvah observance, although that certainly was not the case when he first came to the Yeshiva. As we began to discuss Rosh Hashana, he expressed to me that he was having major difficulty with the idea of t'shuva. How can I regret what I did during my high school years? I didn't know much about Judaism and I cared even less but I made some great friends and had a lot of fun. Am I supposed to regret not wearing tefillin? I didn't appreciate the importance and beauty of tefillin then, so I did not wear them. Now that I know, I have been wearing them and I plan to continue wearing them, but I don't regret not having worn them. Isn't the fact that I'm doing it now good enough? Doesn't that show that I'm accepting that this is the right thing to do? Do I really have to regret not having done something that made no sense to me at the time? I asked him what he thought. He responded that someone had tried to answer him in the following way: Imagine that at a time in your life you were very insensitive to other people's sensitivities. You said things to them that deeply insulted them. You spoke in a way that really offended them. At the time you didn’t realized that you weren't being the perfect gentleman, but a few years later you developed those sensitivities. Looking back,
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you wouldn't simply say that I acted according to what I then knew and I couldn't have been expected to have acted differently. Even though at the time you didn't know any better, now, with your newly developed sensitivities, you'd empathize with what you had put them through and you'd regret having acted in the way that you did. He then explained that he didn't like that answer since it only really covered things done between man and man. However, G-d, who knows exactly where each person is coming from and where he's presently at, should not have gotten insulted if we messed up in regard to Him. He should understand and accept that now, as we gained an understanding in Judaism, we've changed our ways. So for not wearing tefillin, there should be no regrets necessary... Seeing this wasn't going to be easy, I tried a different angle. Let's say, theoretically speaking of course, one used drugs heavily during a certain time in his life. In the neighborhood he was in, with the friends he'd hang with, his involvement was perfectly understandable. However, years later when he cleaned up his act and tried to get on with his life, he found that he had irreparably 'fried' about a quarter of his brain. During that carefree time in his life he had harmed himself eternally. Granted, then he didn't know any better but now that he does, wouldn't he regret his previous actions? I was pretty happy with that but this guy was one tough customer. He countered that according to that he can see how one can regret it but not how one is obligated to. In the example that I gave, the person sees the harm that was done and he therefore regrets. However, when it comes to mitzvos, although we might learn that one causes himself eternal damage or deprives himself of the gratification of a spiritual level that had been within his grasp, we don't really see it tangibly in front of us. Therefore, how can he be obligated to regret not having worn his tefillin? I explained that we're obligated to study the importance of mitzvos and to realize that their other-worldly repercussions are much more powerful than any harm we could imagine. "Too intangible to obligate me to regret," he maintained. I tried one last salvo. Let's say that some crazy long-lost uncle approaches you and says: You're not going to believe this but I've been filming you since the day you turned thirteen. I've got it all on videotape. No, don't worry, I'm not going to show it to your mom, but I am going to give you a hundred dollars for every day that you put on tefillin. Honestly, I asked him, would you then regret the days that you missed? Yes, he conceded, then I'd feel some regret. Maybe, just maybe, I said to him, our t'shuva and regret needs to be that, in our minds, the mitzvos we've missed out on aren't worth a hundred bucks... I don't know Rabbi, maybe... Like I said, one tough customer. Good Shabbos! D’VAR TORAH COURTESY OF TORAH.ORG
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Haftarah for Nitzavim (Isaiah 61:10-63:9) This week's haftarah is the seventh and final installment of a series of seven "Haftarot of Consolation." These seven haftarot commence on the Shabbat following Tisha b'Av and continue until Rosh Hashanah. he prophet begins on a high note, describing the great joy that we will experience with the Final Redemption, comparing it to the joy of a newly married couple.
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Isaiah than declares his refusal to passively await the Redemption: "For Zion's sake I will not remain silent, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not be still, until her righteousness emerges like shining light..." He implores the stones of Jerusalem not to be silent, day or night, until G d restores Jerusalem and establishes it in glory. The haftarah then recounts G-d's oath to eventually redeem Zion, when the Jews will praise G-d in Jerusalem. The haftarah also contains a description of the punishment G d will mete out to Edom and the enemies of Israel. Isaiah concludes with the famous statement: "In all [Israel's] afflictions, He, too, is afflicted, and the angel of His presence redeemed them..." Like a loving father who shares the pain of his child, G-d, too, shares the pain of His people, and awaits the redemption along with them. HAFTARAH SUMMARY COURTESY OF CHABAD.ORG.
FOUR STEPS TO REAL CHANGE BY RABBI CHANOCH OPPENHEIM Many Jews who find themselves in a place of worship during High Holidays bide their time until they can leave. Others make a real effort to have a transformative experience, and enjoy a ride to new heights of self-growth and intimacy with God. If you fall into the first group, this article is for you. ell-known High Holiday traditions include dipping an apple in honey, blowing a Shofar, and fasting. A crucial overlooked practice is "repentance." Perhaps you recoiled upon reading this word because it conjures up images of a medieval priest exhorting his parishioners. But this practice does apply to Jews, and it can give every kind of Jew an upgrade in life. The true meaning of the Hebrew word teshuva is "return" though it is commonly translated as "repent." Each Jew can return to his/her "true self." The question is, who is the real you? You are real when you don't give the silent treatment to someone you love. You are real when you speak directly to a person who has angered you instead of speaking behind his/her back. You are real when you do not see yourself as a total failure after your performance falls short of perfection. These scenarios warrant teshuva, a return to the genuine you. The four-step process of teshuva is available to everyone with one caveat: "the ride it ain't free." It takes commitment, brutal honesty, and introspection.
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Four Steps Consider a practical example. Someone regularly belittles his spouse/colleague/neighbor/child. He knows it's wrong, but continues to do so. Stop the destructive behavior. If you think, "I really should stop," but justify just belittling others via email, then that’s not serious about change.
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Feel remorse. If the person ceases belittling behavior but does not think it was wrong, then he/she merely gives lip service to a
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fleeting thought of decency. Spend time thinking about what it must feel like to be belittled; this will bring about genuine remorse. Verbal confession. Not in an anonymous or face-toface encounter with a religious leader, but to God. Why is it necessary to make a verbal declaration? Because there is a metaphysical power in audibly expressing your innermost thoughts. Restricted to your mind alone, positive thoughts lack the necessary power. Although we do not see God in front of us, when we confess audibly, we become uncomfortable in confessing our wrongdoings and will feel increasingly foolish repeating our misdeeds again tomorrow and the next week. At the time of confession, say aloud: "I declare before God, Who knows my innermost thoughts: I have done wrong, I have done X behavior (details, details – generalizations do not count) and deeply regret my actions."
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Resolve not to repeat the destructive behavior. Say out loud: “I will never do it again.” If you cannot do this process, you must admit to yourself that you still have a problem. This process is not for the light-hearted. It’s for people who want the greatness that comes from a mental/psychological/emotional/spiritual workout. The same way a workout at the gym can be challenging yet pleasurable, so too self-growth is a rigorous process that yields pleasure. As the High Holidays approach, we know that we are not enslaved to the forces that separate us from becoming the "true self." Set aside one hour from your busy schedule. Go somewhere you can think without distractions – a closed room or an open forest, as long as there’s no phone or Internet access to distract you. Consider the primary relationships in your life – with others, with God, and with yourself – and try to get some big-picture clarity. Try to isolate the one or two points where you are losing the most ground, and then go through the four steps of teshuva. Take responsibility for your destructive behaviors. The lies you told yourself in the past about not being able to change will belong to someone you no longer recognize. Transform yourself. Now is time for teshuva, a return to the real you. "The door's open."
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NON-TOXIC SOLUTION KEEPS BUGS OUT OF FOOD BY DAVID SHAMAH, ISRAEL21C
Israel's Bio[pack] makes a package coating from plant extracts already programmed by nature to repel insects. It can also be sprayed around the perimeter of warehouses. f you've ever been disgusted by the sight of a winged creature flying out of a newly opened box of cereal or other packaged food, read on. Insect infestation is one of the biggest problems facing food manufacturers and distributors, who fight a constant battle to keep bugs out of factories and warehouses. Many pesticides are off-limits to food producers because of their toxicity, which makes this struggle even tougher. "After some study, we discovered a perfectly natural and safe way to keep insects away from food," says Prof. Shlomo Navarro, co-founder of Israel's Bio[pack]. "Our solution is natural, safe, long-lasting and unlikely to be something a bug could build up resistance to, unlike chemical pesticides." Bio[pack]'s compound can be applied to food packaging or used alone around a warehouse perimeter as an area repellent. Navarro and his colleague Fadel Mansour of Israel's Volcani Agricultural Research Center based their revolutionary product on scientific research into naturally occurring pest repellents in plants. Agriculturalists long knew, for example, that spearmint plants repel ants, coriander repels aphids, horseradish keeps away Colorado potato beetles, tomatoes repel cab-
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bage maggots and potatoes keep Mexican bean beetles at bay. Navarro and his team, however, were the first to isolate and extract the specific chemical elements in plants that repel bugs. Bio[pack]'s solution combines numerous repellent elements into a single product. Insect-repellent packaging "We see our product being used as a repellent in factories and warehouses, keeping food safe during the production and storage stage, but we have also developed a way to incorporate the repellent in flexible packaging, thus ensuring that products remain insect-free while they are on store shelves." Navarro, Mansour and five fellow scientists hold patents for processes to extract natural insect repellents from fruits and vegetables and infuse them in plastic, aluminum
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HOW TO IMPROVE YOUR HOME SECURITY Home burglaries are more likely to happen when you are not home. Here are some home security tips that will help your home become more burglar resistant. Be sure to read through these carefully and if you try out even a few of these, you will be closer to having a more secure home. ew home, new locks: When moving into a new residence, change all locks as you never know who has a copy of your key. You can also ask for rekeying services, in which can your lock’s tumbler system will be changed so a totally different kind of key will work (and the old keys won’t work). Think like a burglar: Pretend to be a burglar yourself, and try to think of ways to break into your own home. Study your home and observe any weaknesses in its security. Lock windows: Before leaving your house, make sure all windows are sealed properly. Balcony door: Never leave the balcony door unlocked at night or when going out. Balconies could provide easy access to burglars. When going out, leave a light or the TV/Stereo on: A burglar in action would be deterred by the noise, and would not want to take a chance if it seems like someone is at home. Never make your home appear empty by turning all the lights off. Get a dog: A dog bark can serve as a warning and attract attention, something burglars try to avoid. No dog? You can still have a sign! A sign in the lawn or by your front door can deter burglars. Make sure the sign is in a conspicuous spot, so it can be easily seen when approaching your home. Spare key: Never leave a spare key under the door mat, or anywhere outside your house. Even if you can come up with a creative secret place to hide your key, if anyone ever sees you obtaining your key from that location, it is no longer reliable. The better
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option would be to leave your spare key with a neighbor whom you can trust. Lost key: Change your lock if you ever lose your key. Garage doors: Garage doors provide access into your home, so treat them as any other door; make sure they are locked properly, as well as the door that leads from the garage room to your residence. Get safety bars on windows: Especially if your home is located in a bad area or on the first floor/street level. If you would rather not due to aesthetic reasons, then get windows that are extra secure (with a secondary lock) and make sure they are installed correctly Close drapes: Try to keep drapes closed in rooms with expensive equipment that could provide burglars a glimpse. Get a safe: A safe can help protect not only valuables but also important paperwork, check books, bank statements and financial records. Identity theft is a big issue these days and safes offer a good way to protect your documents. Alarm system: If a burglar managed to break into your house, an alarm system could deter him from proceeding. Investing in a home alarm system really pays off, as it tends to reduce the rate of break-ins. However, it is important to make sure that the alarm system is connected to a police or a monitoring station so that when the alarm goes off, someone will actually respond.
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To Use or Not to Use Herbal Supplements?.. CONTINUED FROM PAGE 33 Echinacea also increases the risk of liver toxicity in people on a statin, fibrate or niacin. You should also be aware that St. John's wort can alter the effectiveness of a wide range of
medications. Most herbal supplements have not undergone the extensive investigation and testing for safety or effectiveness that the FDA requires of prescription drugs and med-
icines. Perhaps it’s time to consider utilizing the time-tested methods of the FDA to establish herbal remedy criteria for effective dosage, safety and potential drug interac-
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BROOKLYN COLLEGE ESTABLISHES FOUR NEW SCHOOLS... CONTINUED FROM PAGE 40 studies program. Dean Phillips has a record of scholarship as a historian of the American experience. She is a distinguished lecturer for the Organization of American Historians and has received fellowships and awards from Harvard University and Wellesley College, among others. • Willie E. Hopkins of the School of Business comes from California State University, Chico, where he served as dean of the College of Business for six years. Prior to that, he served as dean of the School of Business and Technology at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore and as associate
dean for research and administration at Colorado State University. Dean Hopkins brings more than 30 years of academic and administrative experience to Brooklyn College. He is the author of two scholarly books, has a combined total of over 100 journal articles and conference presentations, holds positions on numerous editorial review boards, and has served as a member and chair on several accreditation review teams. • Kleanthis Psarris of the School of Natural and Behavioral Sciences was until recently the chair of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Texas at San
Antonio, as well as director of its Center of High Performance Computing and Software. As department chair, he increased external research funding substantially, improved enrollment and retention, increased diversity among the faculty and student body, established strong ties with business and industry partners, expanded and renewed facilities and equipment, and raised funds to support departmental priorities. The four new deans join Deborah A. Shanley, who has served as dean of the School of Education at Brooklyn College since 1998:
• A renowned educator for 35 years, Deborah A. Shanley has pursued research in the field of behavioral analysis on students with social and emotional challenges. Prior to coming to Brooklyn College, she was dean of the School of Liberal Arts and Education at Medgar Evers College. Known for her activist perspective on teacher education renewal, Dean Shanley has framed her leadership in a wide network of national collaborative partnerships. On the local level, she has established multiple relationships with local high schools, as well as numerous community organizations.
death isn’t their fault. We would do well to remind ourselves that it is not our fault, either. The wisest physicians are those who embrace informed and well-considered risks.
Jacob M. Appel, MD, JD, is a third-year resident in psychiatry at Mount Sinai Hospital.
Are We Too Afraid of Suicide?.. CONTINUED FROM PAGE 33 patient dies of cancer. Our society accepts that, despite heroic efforts, some cancers can’t yet be cured. If society were similarly able to accept that some suicides are inevitable, psychiatrists might take risks that
would save and improve other lives. Of course, society is unlikely to embrace this understanding unless psychiatrists change course. When a patient commits suicide, we’re quick to tell survivors that the
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ZOA Criticizes Columbia University for Planning Banquet for Al-Qaeda Ally Iran’s Ahmadinejad... CONTINUED FROM PAGE 40 tion, meaning calling for the murder of the Jews of Israel, and uttering obscenities like denying the Nazi genocide of Europe’s Jews. What makes Ahmadinejad’s repeated calls for and predictions of Israel’s destruction so
ominous is that his regime is proceeding unhindered towards acquiring nuclear weapons, which would allow him to carry out his dream. Ahmadinejad says repeatedly that no one will stop him.
“If Ahmadinejad had called for the genocide of blacks or Hispanics, Columbia would never get near him. Why is there a difference when Ahmadinejad calls for genocide of Jews?
Efrat: An Oasis for Olim... CONTINUED FROM PAGE 15 Efrat in some ways mirrors the Jewish communities located abroad, as families are often drawn together through their connection to their shuls, and their social lives to some extent revolve around their synagogues. What only thirty years was merely a dream of Rabbi Shlomo Riskin - then a young rabbi at the Upper West Side’s Lincoln
Square Synagogue—Efrat has grown and flourished while retaining the intimacy of a small town. Before ending, permit me to wish you a Shana Tova: May you and your loved ones be blessed this coming year with good health, happiness and fulfillment in all your endeavors.
“My Israel Home” is a real estate agency focused on helping people from abroad buy and sell homes in Israel. Gedaliah Borvick will be running complimentary workshops in Jerusalem’s Prima Kings Hotel on Chol Hamoed Sukkos, Sunday October 16th at 5:00 pm and 8:00 pm. For more information, you may contact him at gborvick@myisraelhome.com.
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Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz Heading for Retirement... CONTINUED FROM PAGE 12 for bringing without prior approval his wife, Jamie, on freebie business trips on the Netherlands and Turkey. Markowitz protested, but said he will pay the fine. The Post
reports, however, that this incident has “no bearing on Markowitz’s decision.” Markowitz may have attracted developers to downtown Brooklyn and Coney Island, but
he also has his share of infuriated constituents. These include bicycle activists who are angry over his opposition to a bike lane along Prospect Park West. He also has
opponents to his Atlantic Yards projects. Though political observers give him a fair chance to win, he has yet to make a move to begin funding. However, as Markowitz himself says, don’t count him out just yet.
Metropolitan Area Rabbis Hit the Road to Provide Reflections on Teshuva, 10/2... CONTINUED FROM PAGE 22 In a three-way arrangement encompassing Long Island and Washington Heights, Rabbi Jonathan Muskat, of Young Israel of Oceanside is going to Mount Sinai Jewish
Center of Washington Heights; Rabbi Dovid Weinberger, Congregation Sha’aray Tefila, Lawrence, to Young Israel of Oceanside; and Rabbi Yaacov Lerner, Young Israel of Great
Neck, to Congregation Sha’aray Tefila. “Hannah Chornock-Farkas, Program Associate in the Department of Community Services, ably coordinated the intricate
scheduling of the program,” said Frank Buchweitz. For further information, call 212613-8188. WWW.OU.ORG
Non-toxic solution keeps bugs out of food... CONTINUED FROM PAGE 36 wrap, cardboard and other types of food packaging. "We've gotten some interest in the packaging, but it takes time for manufacturers to adopt new packaging, so for now most of the companies we are working with have adopted the standalone repellent," Navarro says. Unlike chemical pesticides, Bio[pack]'s natural repellents don't allow for the possi-
bility of insects building up resistance to the elements. "Resistance is a process that takes place when an element gets inside an insect population, and some of the population survive," says Navarro. As people do, bugs can get used to poisons, handing down resistance to subsequent generations of insects - with a new, resistant generation often appearing in a matter of
weeks. "Since our product is a repellent, the insects just stay away from the area where it is applied, so there is little chance of insects building up resistance," he explains. The 20-employee Bio[pack] company is about six years old and is funded by private investments and by the Trendlines Group's Misgav Innovation Accelerator, of which it is
a member. Bio[pack]'s product is set to be deployed by several major manufacturers in Israel. "US agencies will be using our performance here in their evaluation of Bio[pack] for the US market," says Navarro. WWW.ISRAEL21C.COM
Frustration in Binyamin: We Destroy – They Build... CONTINUED FROM PAGE 5 He later added, “We heard no response from the Prime Minister’s Office after the three homes were destroyed… Apparently it is convenient for you, and for others in government, that [Defense Minister] Ehud Barak does the dirty work of demolition for you… I’m sorry for the harsh tone, but the feeling among many here in Judea and Samaria is that we are living on borrowed
time, and you are the ones responsible.” Despite the feeling of living under threat, “we do not live in despair, we continue to create, to build, and to raise children and grandchildren who love the land, serve in the army, and fulfill all of our obligations,” he added. Houminer told Arutz Sheva that aside from emphasizing the lack of building in
Jewish areas, the massive PA project in Rawabi poses environmental and security risks. There is no supervision of building in the area, he said, and the city “is likely to post an immediate threat to those living in nearby Jewish towns.” In addition, he said, construction proceeds 24 hours a day, seven days a week, leaving those living nearby with no respite
from the noise. Houminer has expressed his concerns in letters to Members of Knesset. Only a handful have responded, he said, among them MK Aryeh Eldad and MK Tzipi Hotovely. “But if the Prime Minister does not intervene, or let us know what lies in store for us, nothing will happen,” he lamented.
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ZOA CRITICIZES COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY BROOKLYN COLLEGE ESTABLISHES FOR PLANNING BANQUET FOR AL-QAEDA FOUR NEW SCHOOLS NEW DEANS ARE LEADING U.S. SCHOLARS, ADMINISTRATORS ALLY IRAN’S AHMADINEJAD The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has criticized the decision by Columbia University’s Columbia International Relations Council and Association (CIRCA) to invite Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to a University banquet. When the ZOA received reports of the event, it called upon Columbia University president Lee Bollinger to rescind the invitation and cancel the banquet. hmadinejad, who has denied the Holocaust, proclaimed that the U.S. and Israel should be wiped off the map and seeks to acquire nuclear weapons and is allied with al-Qaeda, was permitted to address Columbia University in September 2007, despite widespread protest. This time, he is to attend a banquet of Columbia’s International Relations Council and Association on September 21, which will also be attended by about 15 students. According to a Fox News report covering a report in Columbia’s school paper, CIRCA’s Vice-president Tim Chan said the group is “thrilled to have this opportunity,” but that the dinner is “still tentative.” When contacted by reporters, Columbia has denied that the event will take place, saying that it is certainly not sponsored by Columbia nor will it be attended by its president. Stanley Fish of the New York Times reports, “Robert Hornsby, assistant vice president of media relations at Columbia, was quite adamant when I spoke to him. At no time, he declared, has there been any university event planned or considered involving the president of Iran. So maybe there’ll be a dinner and maybe some Columbia students will be there, but if it happens it will be a private, not an institutionally authorized, affair.”
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“This invitation is simply unacceptable. Ahmadinejad is only the most vocal of Muslim leaders calling for Israel’s elimination, meaning calling for the murder of the Jews of Israel.” _______________________________ In September 2007, Mr. Bollinger said, in justifying the earlier invitation to Ahmadinejad, that he had insisted that the event would include a session of questions as long as Ahmadinejad’s address and that he personally would issue a number of “sharp challenges” to the Iranian leader on his public denial of the murder of European Jews in the Nazi Holocaust, public call for Israel’s elimination, support for terrorism and his pursuit of nuclear weapons, as well as the suppression of women’s rights and imprisonment of journalists and scholars. When ZOA National President Morton A. Klein read the Fox news report about the supposed event, he said, “We are appalled and disgusted at this morally reprehensible invitation to a banquet being given to the president of a brutally repressive, terroristsponsoring outlaw regime who also denies the Holocaust and speaks of wiping off the map the Jewish state of Israel. “This invitation is simply unacceptable. Ahmadinejad is only the most vocal of Muslim leaders calling for Israel’s elimina-
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As the new academic year gets underway, President Karen L. Gould officially welcomes the founding deans of four new schools, completing the final stage of an ambitious academic reorganization started less than two years ago. Together with the existing School of Education, created in 1998, the new structure will streamline the college’s operations, raise the profile of its nationally recognized academic programs, and expand partnership opportunities in Brooklyn and beyond.
look forward to working with our new deans as we shape these new schools into centers of academic excellence on our campus,” said Gould. “The sheer size and complexity of our institution warranted this dramatic step,” added Gould, who advocated for this administrative transformation upon taking office in 2009. “We now have a leadership team that will provide direct support to our students and faculty, and will collaborate with department chairs to provide the best possible academic experience for our students.” Until July 2011, the college was comprised of 32 departments and 10 interdisciplinary programs, all of which reported directly to Provost William A. Tramontano, the college’s chief academic officer. The college took a fiscally responsible approach to the reorganization. By streamlining operations in the Office of the Provost, distributing oversight of graduate programs and research to each of the schools, and reassigning existing staff, the new schools were
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“The new five-school structure will help to ensure that each department has the resources necessary to support its mission and serve its students.” _______________________________ established without creating additional positions and with minimal new funds. Each department now resides within one of the five schools—Business; Education; Humanities and Social Sciences; Natural and Behavioral Sciences; and Visual, Media and Performing Arts—placing decision-making authority in the hands of those with a deeper understanding of the operations in each department. “The new five-school structure will help to ensure that each department has the resources necessary to support its mission and serve its students,” Tramontano said. “It will also enable the college to identify additional external resources to invest in new and existing programs.” As the leaders of their respective schools, the deans will provide strategic vision and operational leadership to all aspects of the academic programs; create an environment that supports students and faculty; streamline pathways to graduation through a com-
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New Brooklyn College deans (LR): Dr. Willie E. Hopkins; Maria Ann Conelli; Kleanthis Psarris; Kimberley L. Phillips mitment to effective recruitment, retention, and persistence; promote excellence and diversity in graduate and undergraduate programs; and advance scholarly activities of the faculty. The deans also will work closely with the Brooklyn College Foundation to attract external funding from federal agencies, corporations, foundations and individual donors to support the schools; fund new initiatives; complement the resources provided by the state and tuition revenues; and identify priorities and directions for future growth and innovation. The new deans are: • Maria Ann Conelli ’80 of the School of Visual, Media and Performing Arts is a Brooklyn College alumna. Dean Conelli’s career has spanned both museum and academic setting, most recently serving as executive director of the American Folk Art Museum, and as dean of the School of Graduate Studies and acting dean of the School of Art and Design at the Fashion Institute of Technology. Her leadership experience in arts administration provides her with a strong background in curriculum development, strategic planning, global partnerships, and fundraising. • Kimberley L. Phillips of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences comes from the College of William and Mary, where she has served as the Frances L. and Edwin L. Cummings Associate Professor of History and American Studies since 2004. Until 2009, she was also dean for educational policy and, before that, director of its American
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Highest Standards for Separate Swimming in Lowest Place on Earth MEN AND WOMEN CAN NOW SWIM SEPARATELY AT THE HIGHEST STANDARDS, AT A LOVELY NEW BEACH IN THE LOWEST PLACE ON EARTH. THE LAUNCH WAS MONDAY BY CHANA YA'AR Men and women who prefer to swim separately will now be able to do so at a special beach in the lowest place on earth. nterior Minister Eli Yishai officially dedicated a separate swimming beach Monday at the Dead Sea – the first one ever to be established in the popular resort area. The beach is intended to allow the religious public to enjoy an important natural resource, as the rest of the Israeli public does, a ministry statement said. Attending the ceremony was Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi Yona Metzger and Deputy Prime Minister Silvan Shalom, among others. Rabbi Shimon Elharar, the ChabadLubavitch emissary to the Dead Sea, was also at the ceremony. Elharar told Arutz Sheva in an interview Monday afternoon that he personally had been around to watch the beach take shape. “Truckloads upon truckloads of beautiful sand has been arriving at the site for months,” he said. “There are wonderful new showers and other facilities. Also, the government has raised the level of the beach to ensure that for the next 10 years, no one will have to worry about damage to the beach from the rising salt level. “It's a real sanctification of G-d's name,” he said. “We find ourselves in the Holy Land, in the very palace of the King Himself, and it
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is beautiful that Israel has built a beach to promote modesty, holiness and purity in the Holy Land. It is also interesting that it was created in the lowest place on earth, he added, "right next to the entrance of Sodom!" In a more positive light, Elharar added, the beach is a "beautiful gift to present to the Holy One for the New Year from the lowest place on the planet!" The Tourism Ministry is working intensively on its campaign to promote the Dead Sea as one of the "New 7 Wonders of Nature." The international campaign wraps up in just two more months, and the Dead Sea is a finalist in the competition, which is seen as a major source of resources to help repair the environmental damage to the area. This month Israelis are being asked to choose the "Seven Wonders of Israel" in a mini-campaign within the country, sponsored jointly between the Tourism Ministry and Channel 2 -- a competition which includes the Dead Sea as one of its sites.
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SEPHARDIC FOOD FUN HOSTS FIRST ANNUAL TENNIS TOURNAMENT
Max Cohen (L), one of the SFF Tennis Tournament’s organizers, with participant Isaac Dweck. BY MAX COHEN Sunday, August 28, 2011: The day the Sephardic Food Fund's First Annual Topspin Tennis Tournament was supposed to take place. It was also the day that Hurricane (later, Tropical Storm) Irene was forecasted to pay a visit to the Jersey Shore. With no options available, we, the chairmen, had to contemplate cancelling the tournament. As many evacuated to Brooklyn, we were left with few options for a rain date. ith Hashem's help however, we were able to reschedule the tournament to Thursday, the first of September! Preceding the tournament day, effort was put into cleaning the courts and preparing for the grand event. Despite the devastation Irene caused, 20 pairs marched up to the home of Laurie and Elliot Sutton that morning. With the effort of Stormin's Sports, we supplied our players with a memory before the day even started. Complimentary bags were given to every player, each containing sweatpants, a towel, and the day’s most talked-about item: tennis shirts. The excitement continued throughout the day as we completed a successful regular season. The four division champions received a bye to the quarterfinals as eight remaining teams rallied for their appearance in the next round. As the semifinals closed up, a crowd, consisting of family and friends, sat anxiously waiting for the finals. The two teams "hit the clay" and were both prepared to take home the trophy. On one side of the court stood Joe Greenberg and Bobby Fallack. On the other side, bent and ready to rally, stood Elliot Haddad and Davey Haber. With a quick 3-0 lead for the Greenberg/Fallack duo, many predicted an early win. However, their opponents were not allowing the dismantling of their team and they snuck two wins onto the scoreboard. But Greenberg and Fallack gave each other words of encouragement as they ran up the ladder in wins achieving an 8-3 victory for the title of Topspin Champs!
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The players shook hands and exchanged a few good words. Crystal Cup trophies were then brandished as the cheering crowd embraced them. A generous donation by the event’s sponsors, iHomes were also given to the winners to accompany the trophies. The day saw beautiful weather to support the amazing tournament. With more than $30,000 raised for the Sephardic Food Fund, the players had fun while food was being packaged to serve the 300 families under the Sephardic Food Fund's help. The Sephardic Food Fund is an organization that works towards filling the tables of needy families throughout the community. Their reputation for supplying food without embarrassing the needy is well above five stars. Food with dignity is their slogan, and one that is kept everyday as credit cards are distributed to needy families so they can get their food without embarrassment or stigma. Everyone is encouraged to get involved and aid the SFF in feeding the increasing amount of hungry families under their watch! Special thanks must be given to those that made this tournament possible. First we must thank the generous sponsors for taking from their pockets to support the needy! Thanks must then be granted to the hosts of the tournament: Laurie and Elliot Sutton, Heidi and Steve Russo, Shirley and Louie Franco, Glorie and Meir Cohen, and Elyse and Eddie Fallack. Thank you for opening your homes for the event! A thank you is owed to Eddie and Ceryse Mizrahi for putting much time and effort into making sure the event was perfect. Lastly, I would like to thank my parents for supporting me throughout all the planning and fundraising and for encouraging me to go beyond. Be’ezrat Hashem we will see the same crowd next year and many more as we continue to plan exciting new events in what we hope will become a beautiful annual tradition! Max Cohen, along with his friend Ralph Mizrahi, helped create this year’s tennis tournament, as well as other sporting events in past years, the proceeds from which have benefitted the Sephardic Food Fund. (May they be zocheh to create many more!)
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LEGAL NOTICES NOTICE OF ADJOURNED SALE SUPREME COURT, KINGS COUNTY, JPMCC 2006LDP6 ROCKAWAY AVENUE, LLC, Plaintiff, v. 830 ROCK LLC, CHAIM MAYER, ABRAHAM ROSENBLUM, USHER STEINMETZ, PARK LUMBER YARD INC. a/k/a PARK LUMBER YARD CORP., ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL BOARD OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK, THE CITY OF NEW YORK, PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Defendants, Index No. 24272/2008. Pursuant to a Final Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale dated July 29, 2010 and entered in the above-entitled action on July 14, 2011 (the “Judgment”), I the undersigned Referee in said Judgment named, will sell at public auction to the highest bidder in Room 261 of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, County of Kings, located at 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, New York 11201, the premises directed by said Judgment to be sold. The premises will be offered for sale, as one parcel, on Thursday, September 15, 2011 at 3:00 P.M., and are more particularly described as follows: Parcel A: ALL THAT CERTAIN PLOT, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the Borough of Brooklyn, County of Kings, City and State of New York, known and designated as Lots 6, 7, 8, 9 in Block 3614 on Plan of lots called “Waverly” surveyed for Wood Harmon & Co., June 1901 by Fred L. Bartlett filed June 8, 1906 as Map #1498, which said parcels are more particularly described as follows: BEGINNING at the corner formed by the intersection of the southerly side of Newport Avenue with the westerly side of Rockaway Avenue; RUNNING THENCE southerly along the westerly side of Rockaway Avenue 80 feet; RUNNING THENCE westerly and parallel to Newport Avenue 100 feet; RUNNING THENCE northerly and parallel to the westerly side of Rockaway Avenue 80 feet to the southerly side of Newport Avenue; RUNNING THENCE easterly along the southerly side of
Newport Avenue 100 feet to the corner, the point of place of BEGINNING. Parcel B: ALL THAT CERTAIN PLOT, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the Borough of Brooklyn, County of Kings, City and State of New York, bounded and described as follows: BEGINNING at a point on the westerly side of Rockaway Avenue distant 80 feet southerly from the corner formed by the intersection of the southerly side of Newport Avenue with the westerly side of Rockaway Avenue; RUNNING THENCE westerly parallel with Newport Avenue, 100 feet; THENCE southerly parallel with Rockaway Avenue, 120 feet; THENCE easterly parallel with Newport Avenue, 100 feet to the westerly side of Rockaway Avenue; THENCE northerly along the westerly side of Rockaway Avenue, 120 feet to the point of place of BEGINNING. The above-described premises are located at (a) 830 Rockaway Avenue, Brooklyn, New York 11212, designated as Section 12, Block 3614, Lot 37 on the Tax Map for the County of Kings; and (b) 842 Rockaway Avenue, Brooklyn, New York 11212, designated as Section 12, Block 3614, Lot 41 on the Tax Map for the County of Kings. The premises will be sold subject to the provisions of the filed Judgment, Index No. 24272/2008, and the Terms of Sale, all of which are available from plaintiff’s counsel upon request. The approximate amount of the Judgment, for the property referred to therein, is $4,565,177.03 plus interest and costs, as provided in the Judgment. The successful bidder will be required to deposit 10% of the bid by certified or official bank check, unendorsed, made payable to the Referee. John J. Walsh, Esq., Referee. (718) 646-2658 Herrick, Feinstein LLP, Attorneys for Plaintiff, 2 Park Avenue, New York, New York 10016 (212) 5921461, Attention: Scott T. Tross, Esq.
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REAL ESTATE 2020 Boro Park: 58th St/ New Utrecht Ave 2 story frame plus basement and lot. R5 Zone, building 20x60 plus lot 20 x 62. Total lot 40x62. Asking 699K. 4 Reasons RE 718-238-8222
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CROWN HEIGHTS New York State Public Auction JUNE 22, 2011 Min Bid $700,000 836 Prospect Place, Crown Heights 3200 SF 3 story residence 5 bdrs, 2 bths, 2 car garage fenced yard OPEN HOUSES May 4 & 24, June 9th 11:00am to 2pm Also available at auction Camp Gabriels in the Adirondacks, Schenectady Armory, Schenectady house FOR COMPLETE DETAILS. NYS OFFICE GENERAL SERVICES 518-474-2195 www.ogs.state.ny.us 2020 Midwood: 1325 East 29th St, Stylish 3 BR, colonial with both classic and contemporary updates. Large rooms at a spacious interior. Accentuate this lovely home. Close to all shopping and houses of worship. Century 21 Amiable 718-479-5600 2020 Midwood: 1325 East 29th St, Stylish, 3 BR colonial with both classical & Contemporary updates. Large rooms at a spacious interior. Accentuate this lovely home. Close to all shopping & houses of worship. Century 21 AMIABLE 718-479-5600
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VERY LRG VICTORIAN HOME ON BEST STREET. WPAR-AROUND PORCH, EIK, 7BRS, 4 BTHS, PVT DRV. NEEDS SOME UPDATING. IT'S A WONDERFUL HOME. JUST RED $999K.
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GRAVESEND: New const 1000sf, full bth, adjacent to physical therapy ofc, ideal for medical. 718-382-8881 2040
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BROOKLYN BORO PARK 58th Street New Utrecht Avenue 2 story frame plus basement and lot R% zone building 20 x 62 total 40X 62 asking 699K 4 Seasons RE 718-238-8222 2050
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PIZZA SHOP: For Sale in Midwood, Brooklyn. By owner. Call 718-253-1896 or 347-522-8896 2050
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OCEAN PKWY & CHURCH AVE: Medical space y owner. From 500sf to 400sf. Rent from $1000/mo 718-338-6300 artesq@gmail.com Brokers Welcome 2040
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2050 BORO PARK 17THAVE/55TH STREET modern dental medical office available part time or full time more than 2000 square feet operations. Fully computerized and equipped. Nice waiting area plus reception desk kitchen and storage room. Central air and heatExcellent opportuninity with no investmen. Rent negotiable security deposit required. Credit check. Lease. Available june1. 718-435-0045
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Ave J/ East 13th St. 2 BR apt, Avenue J/ 718-236-3199
Office For Rent. MARINE PARK OFFICE SPACE. Corner bldg, 1200sq ft. Good for professional/ day care, etc. Delivered vacant. Long term lease avail. $2500/mo + utils. Owner 646-3025001 or 646-302-5003 2040
Educational & profl space for rent. 4 Classrooms, 2 offices & use of gym. Corn Ave I / Coney Isl Ave. Bus stop on corn. For info call Alice 718-377-4400 or Mr. Weiss 917-301-2898
Avenue U/East 4th St: Concession space available together with Love to Dress, behind Coquette Kids. Call owner: 917-913-0000
2040 Boro Park 17 Ave/55th Street Mod dental/medical office available P/T or F/T. More than 2000 square feet. 4 operatories. Fully computerized and equipped. Nice waiting area + reception desk, kitchen and storage room. C/AC and heat. Excel oppty with no investment. Rent negotiable. Security deposit required. Credit check. Lease. Available June 1. 718-435-0045
BORO PARK 42nd Streer/12th ave double car garage. rent for storage only. $300/mo. call owner 917-593-0707
STORE FRONT / SUNSET PARK: Prime office/Retail space, 900 sq ft great location, prime bus area, split level business, 2 flrs, very busy intersection, 39th St + 5th Ave. Bus stop on every corner. $2600 a mo includes tax/ lease term. Call mgmt 718-288-2922 2040
Marine Park: detached rare extra, 2 family, 3 BR, $695K. Midwood: Semi Detached. 3 BR, 2 bth, $415K. 514 Ocean Pkwy: Co-op, 1BR, $165K. Call Robert 917-399-6374 or 718-646-3600 Coldwell Banker. Mid plaza
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Warehouse for rent, near BROOKLYN COLLEGE. 4000sq ft with 20ft ceilings. 2nd flr office space. Currently has refrigerated storage. Call 718-258-0006 2040 Williamsburg: Beautiful office for rent. 1,200sqft. Ready to move-in. Price Negotiate. Call 917-250-4899
2040 VIDEO CONFERENCE ROOM available for daily and/or weekly rentals. 26 Court St. Downtown Brooklyn. Joe Schacter 646-529-3632 2040 EAST, NY: Kid Kelly boxing gym space available for karate, yoga, aerobics or fitness class. Call 718-495-5710 or 917-589-6568
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Boro Park: 1000 – 3000sqft, beautiful space. Serious inquiries only. Please call management. 718-855-2000 or 845-270-1213 2040
2050 Boro Park: Beautiful office/warehouse avail. 1,000-12,000sf. Also 28,000sf avail on ground flr. 12 ft hi ceil. Sep entrance optional. Call 845-270-1213 or 718-855-2000
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Rare opportunity! Motel for sale. 40 large rooms with kitchens. Ideal for yeshiva or institution. Call 917-365-2037
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Bankruptcy Auction Sale MYC & ASSOCIATES, INC. US BANKCRUPTCY COURT, EDNY RE: 1210 UTICA AVENUE REALTY CORP. CASE NO 07-42474 (ESS) SELL THURS DEC 9 @ 11 AM AT THE PROPERTIES. COMM’L PROPERTY + VACANT LOT KNOWN AS 1084-1090E 92ND ST. BROOKLYN, NY 11236 BLOCK 8160, LOTS 79 & 81. RICHARD E. O’CONNELL, CHAPTER 7 TRUSTEE. FOR QUESTIONS & COMPLETE TERMS & CONDITIONS OF SALE. PLEASE CONTACT MARC P. YAVERBAUM. VICTOR M MONEYPENNY, AUCTIONEER, DCA 1243694. 347-273-1257 myccorp.com 2050
2040 New cubicle space in the heart of Boro Park. 2nd floor officw with 4 cubicles, each comes with internet, telephone and all util incl. Fax & copier avail on per use basis. Bath & kitchenette available As well. $350/mo 212-400-7934 ext703
BUSINESS FOR SALE: TRENDY WOMEN’S BOUTIQUE. Brooklyn. Great location. Very busy. Near nail salon. Established clientele. Fully equipped. Must sell – Moving out of state. Great price! Call owner: 347-424-7460 or 718-513-6664
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GREENPOINT COMMERCIAL BUILDING – FOR SALE. Approved kitchen . 2 floors plus basement / Hi ceilings 14,000 sq ft, fully equipped. Everything in TOP CONDITION. 917-331-0671 2050
For sale or rent – Rstrnts, Bars & Clubs Kings Plaza – Brooklyn, NY – 6yr old bar / restaurant, 10 yr lease w/option , back yard, full kitch, 1400 sf + bsmt, open options, $200K/business, $4000/rent + 9500sqft, bar also avail. Contact Joe 917-862-5214 2050
2050 KINGS HIGHWAY EAST 9TH ST 2nd floor coner office space for rent new c/a 18x42, 750 sf, $1800. Also 18x24 430 sf $1000 Izzy 917-533-7889
Boro Park, 13th Ave: Top location, professional offices for rent. 2000sf and 1400sf for rent, elevator building and parking. 718-438-3736
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Rare Oppty! Motel for sale, 40 large rooms with kitckens. Ideal for Yeshiva or institution. Call 917-365-2037 2050
East Flatbush. 2 Family plus store. Store vacant. $70 OBO. Call 917-803-8702 2050
Williamsburg: Heart of 111 Lee Avenue: Bts Keap and Hooper. ALSO doctor’s office wanted. Call 917-335-6001
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BROOKLYN Ocean Ave. Street level MEDICAL OFFICE. 718-236-3199 2035
2035 MIDWOOD OCEAN AVE OFF AVE M 1 FAMILY SEMI DETACHED HOUSE WALK TO ALL 3 BRS EIK DR LR 1.5 BTHS IDEAL FOR PROFESSIONAL FOR SALE OR RENT. NO BROKERS. CALL 917-445-5293
WAREHOUSE FOR RENT/GARAGE Boro Park/ Bensonnhurst 4000 sq. ft. 23 ft high ceiling has office and two bathrooms. M-1 zone. Call (845) 932-7819 (718) 356-0900 2035
2035 Bergen Beach: 6.5 rooms, 3 BRS, 1.5 bths, good condition. $1600 utilities not included. 718-238-6381 or 917-968-5684
Crown Heights: 574 Maple Street: BTW Albany and Kingston Ave, 2nd FL, front BR with large LR & DR, EIK & wood floors, reduced rent $1290. 1st mo rent fee and ($648) Security dep required $3225 to move in. Hold for $1935, first month rent upon move-in RENKEN RE 646-235-4368 2010
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BROOKLYN 2010Midwood: Furnished room in private house FOR RENT Male preferred $400/month, Utils included Near Q & F trains (917) 841 5821
2010 East 37th Street/ Ave J huge spacious 2 BR apt. private house, parquet floors EIK many windows balcony 2nd floor parking option $1650 Utilities included 347-702-9800
Sheepshead Bay E 24th St, Av X Newly renovated 1 Bd Bsmt apt in quiet neighborhood. New Kit, New Bath, w/d, dishwasher. Credit check a must. $1100/month. 718-376-1833 2010
AVE T AD WEST 4TH (BOLD) APARTMENT FOR RENT NEWLY RENOVATED 1BR, LR, EIK, CLOSE TO SUBWAY AND F TRAIN SHOPPING AND MORE $1300/MO AVAILABLE IMMEDIATELY CALL OWNER 718-266-0496 COUPLE MATURE PREFFERED 2010
Bensonhurst 4 newly renovated large rooms 2BR call 718-259-1654 Leave message
2010
2010 CO-OP FOR SALE $175 2BR 1 BATH COOP 144 B. 121 ST BEACH BLOCK BY OWNER NO BOARD APPROVAL CAN BE IN BEFORE SUMMER ENDS 650 SQ FT 11 WINDOWS HIGH CEILINGS WOODEN FLOORS GALLERY KITCHEN WITH NEW APPLIANCES AND CABINETS $642 MAINT. INCLUDES PARKING TAXES HEAT AND WATER QUIET 7 UNIT BUILDING. STEPS FROM THE BEACH CALL DENISE 347-727-6994
2010 Kensington: 3 BR, 1.5bths heat incl, 2 flights up, balcony, 3rd flr, private brick house. Reasonable. Shomer shabbos. 718-972-3473
OCEAN PARKWAY / DITMAS AND 18TH AVE CO-OP BUILDING 5TH FLOOR LUXURY 1 BR APT WITH NEW FURNITIRE AND NEW KITCHEN 1400/MO CALL OWNER 917-723-7611 2010
2010 BENSONHURST 4 NEWLY RENOVATED LARGE ROOMS 2BRS CALL 718-259-1654. LV MESSAGE
Rockaway Park 2BR 2BTH duplex apartment in private house 1st Floor mint condition all new appliance close to transportation call for appt by owner 347-642-3115 2010
2010 SUNSET PARK RENTALS Newly renov 1BR apt, $1150. 41st between 4th and 5th Ave. Must meet income & credit req. Heat & Hot water incl. Call Mgmt: 212-994-2246 or 212-994-2247
EAST FLATBUSH – 3 bedroom, 3rd Fl of 3 family. Close to trans & shops. $1700 mo. Credit ck. Principals onlyOwner 917-613-7545 2010
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REAL ESTATE 2010 Bergen Beach 1 BR walk in LR, DR, EIK near transportation, shopping and more $1100 including heat call owner. 718-209-2146 or cell 347-713-2619
Riverdale, 1 BR Apt: Private entrance, patio, wooded area, close to trans, renovated, dishwasher, eat-in kitchen. $1190 1st/Last/ 1 mo sec. Credit check required. NO FEE 646-269-0587
Georgetown: 1 BR for rent, newly renovated and furnished excellent condition. Good location near transportation shopping and more short/long term avail. Call 917-696-0000
KEW GARDEN HILLS: Hyde Park Gdns, spacious 1st fl, 1 BR coop, wd flrs, 24 hrs security, near all. $1200/mon utils incl. 1 mon sec. Call OWNER 718-481-7752
Apt for rent Brooklyn: Madison / Midwood / Sheepshead Bay. Studios 1,2,3 BD’s $800-$2600 Courtland Real Estate. Jack 917-596-6507 Mark 646-359-6323
Apartment For Rent
2010
2060
2010
Office/Commercial/ Business For Sale
3000
QUEENS/BRONX 9050
Montefoire Cemetery 1 plot memorial lot A perpetual care. Call 941-488-2374
NEW BRONX BAKERY FOR SALE. Close to precinct, 3 schls in immediate area. Fully optional, most equip new. Asking $110K 646-496-7885 3000
2080
QUEENS/BRONX 13 room apt 1BR both have 1 bedroom in a 2 room apt with 1BR gas and electric included 2 rooms/ 850/mo 3 rooms /1080/mo call 718-350-5867 2080
2080 1 3 room apt – 1 BR both have 1 bedroom in a 2 room apt with 1 BR. Gas & electric included. 2 Rooms/ $850/ Mo. Call 718-350-5867
3060
QUEENS/BRONX
EAST TREMONT AVE: STORE FOR RENT. Top retail location, high pedestrian traffic, 3000sf, can be divided. For details: Rafi 718-364-1400 or 347-495-0614 3060
Continental Ave, Forest Hills: 2nd flr walk up, 1500sqft, currently insurance co. Debre Rosenfeld. 212-604-4744 3060
Apartment For Sale 2060
QUEENS/BRONX Kew Garden Hills: 3BR co-op with attic. Prime location, Motivated seller. $250,000 908-998-4992
2060
MIDWOOD 2 spacious and modern coops. East 8th Street. 1 BR $165K. Maint $545. 1170 Ocean Pkwy 2BR, $215K Maint, $1,000. Dave owner 718-336-2021 1060
OPEN HOUSE – 3133 Rochambeau Ave : Saturday and Sunday. 11am -2pm Great renovations, clea and new fixtures. Near Bronx Botanical Garden, Montifore hospital. – 1 Bedroom - $900-$1100 PAUL 917-659-4255 2060
LONG ISLAND
3020 Far Rockaway 239 Beach 3rd Street For Sale 20,200 Sq ft waterfront development site 200 plus ft fronting canal marina Ideal for luxury 1 and 2 family homes all suitable for temple, school, etc asking $525K or best offer – broker protected Foreclosure agent 718-478-5858
Oakdale/55+ Condos. New construction on Oakdale Bohemia Rd. 2 BR, 2 ba, models now open from $385,000. 631-472-2242
Ridgewood Queens: 6 family building FOR SALE. Brick 12 Bdrms, 6 BA. New plumbing, windows, roof, sidewalk, Walk to subway. Asking $879K. Call owner 917-714-0779 3020
Belle Harbor 2nd from ocean 60x100 Views galore! 5800sf 4 Brs, WB frpic, cust ElK 3.5 bths call for details & appt…$1.9m L.Keating Realty 718-945-9267 5065 ROCKVILLE CENTRE new kitchen, new carpet, 2 BR, attic/storage area, walk LIRR, parking, $1850 plus electric. Call 516-250-8604
Rockaway Park: Furnished rooms, 1 block from beach. Kitchenette, close to A train. All utilities $750/Mo Call Agent 516-297-1534
Far Rockaway: 239 Beach 3rd Street. FOR SALE. 20,200sq ft WATERFRONT. DEVELOPMENT SITE. 200+ FT, fronting canal – marina. Ideal for luxury 1+2 family homes. Also suitable for temple, school, etc. Asking $525K or best offer – Broker protected. Foreclosure. Agent 718-748-5858
Washington Heights: Easy access to transportation, next to Ft. Truimph Park. Internet access, 6 months only, no couples, Women only. 1 BR room for rent. Call 646-305-7678
2080
HUB Area of the BRONX4 stories Mixed Use Property Lg 1st fl Comm & 3 2 bdr apts. Asking $425K neg. Morrisania Sect. of the Bronx 47 Units 6 storey multiple dwelling Asking $32M neg. For further info contact: Broker 646-721-4736 3060
QUEENS/BRONX
3020
2080 Kew Garden Hills Beautiful sunny large 1 BR near queens, college and Q65. 24 hour security elevated $1375 602-717-0163
2080
Office/Commercial/ Business For Rent
For Sale
Apartment For Rent
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1060
2080 Main St/ 70 Ave: 2 BR apt, good condition, EIK, 2nd flr, no smoking, no pets. Avail immediately. 718-757-4433 -After 5pm
WOODLAWN Studio Co-op Apt in elevator secure building $725 / month 516-633-3368 2080
2080 122nd Street/ Rockaway Park: Airy Sunny room for rent. Room for a kitchenette, shared bath, looks like studio, utilities included. Fully furnished, clean, quiet house, great location. Half a block to the beach. Asking $750/mo. Call owner 917-287-6876
Fresh Meadows: 71-44 160th Street: Condos for rent 1-2 BR duplex, 2 bth, LR, DR, EIK, extended backyard large recreation area $1800/mo. No pets/ 2-1BR, 2 bth with porch$1300/mo, no pets. Call owner 718-810-0001 or 617-304-9050. Both Avail Feb 1st 2080
FRESH MEADOWS: SPAC 3BR, 1.5 BATH, MOD KIT, 2ND FLR, WASHER/DRYER. NR SHOPS & TRANS. CALL 917-687-9928 Forest Hills: 2 BR, newly renov, dishwasher, 2nd flr, newly carpeted, very private and quiet. Express bus to Manhattan. Owner 347-545-2665 2080
2080 NEW LISTING $1100-$1400 NORWOOD: 3133 Rochambea Ave Revenue, new kitchen and bathrooms, clean building, 24 security, near botanical garden, Montifore Hospital, forham University and shopping. 1 Bdrm, 2 Bdrm. Call Property Manager. PAUL 646-319-2373
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House For Rent
5065
LONG ISLAND BLUEPOINT : 1 BR Spacious Bsmt Apt., Pvt entrance w/Patio, EIK, Lrg LR, DR, full bth, $1000 mo, all utils incld, 1.5 mo sec & 1 mo rent. 631-363-5095 5065
FARMINGDALE MINT 2BR’s AC, W/D, Modern Kit. Balcony, Private yard, Garage, Parking, Available 9/15 $1800/mo 516-795-1810 5065
FAR ROCKAWAY: 1 + 2 BR apts, some with balconies, new kichens, closets, 24 Hour doorman, security cameras. Walk to all trains. Call Sherr @ Weissman RE 516-791-6100 or 516-297-7995
5065
5065 Far Rockaway: 2BR, 1st FL, porch & patio, own thermostat, near shuls & schools. Avail Nov 15th. 516-643-9204
Amagensett Dunes 400 feet to ocean beach Access. 5 bedrooms, 2 baths. AC. Labor Day. $50, 000 or avail monthly. Call: 631-655-9319 Central Islip/ Hauppange: Large, 1BR, grand floor, no pets/cats. W/D, A/C near trans, exit57 LIE, 1200/mo + security deposit includes gas/ heat/ water. Quiet building, retirees. Serious inquiries only. Call owner 631-757-6959 5065
Apartment For Sale 5000
8095 Hewlett 4BR cape beautiful wood floors EIK large finished basement, 1 block from yeshiva Walk to trash and town Sale $299K or for rent 347-539-1332 or 718-938-4517
GREAT NECK land for sale, 3 res lots on wooded pvt cul-de-sac. Builders/ principals only. 516-443-2700 5070
Office/Commercial/ Business For Rent
5080
LONG ISLAND CO-OP FOR SALE L.I. Cedarhurst: FALL IN LOVE, beautiful large 2 Bd, 2 bth, co-op. All new kitch+baths. W/D in Apt. locked storage, balc, gar. Just reduced moving $369K Call: 516-812-9160 5000 Woodmere: C/H col on ABC St. 6BR, 5 full bths, full kosher kitch, wood floors throughout, full finished basement with BR. Total house Renovation in 2004. Call 516-640-8646
Atlantic Beach 2BR, 1.5 bth Condo, Patio CAC Walk to Private Beach, Boardwalk + Temple Private parking, Low Main. $399K 516-596-7305 Melville Condo For Sale by Owner (62 and older). 2-Bedroom/2- Full Baths unit is big & bright with walk-in closets. Totally up-graded with granite, tile & more. VERY LOW TAXES & Maintance costs. Gated community has Private parking. Clubhouse has pool, fitness, kitchens & more. Five minutes from restaurants, parkways, shopping, golf course, Republic Airport. Forty-five minutes to N.Y.C. or The Hamptons $469,000. Call 516-456-6445 or lindaann919@yahoo.com 5000
North Woodmere: All new 2 BR apt heat & electric included. Shomer shabbot. Close to Shuls and shops. 917-642-7879 Shay 5065
5065 Central Islip/ Hauppauge: LG 1 BR ground floor, no pets/cats, W/D, AC, near NR, RR, exit 57, LIE, 1200/mo+ Security deposit. Includes gas/heat/water. Owner 631-757-6959
ROCKAWAY BEACH: Beach 2 BR condo for sale in a 4yr old building. Eff kitchen, LR, DR area & terrace. Beautiful views of Manhattan & 1 block from the boardwalk. Asking price is $255K. Call Gisela of Century 21 Amiable 917-601-2489
LONG ISLAND 5080 Buyer wanted for glatt kosher LI catering hall seats 300 long lease, reasonable rent, attractive terms. 516-987-1979
5080 BALDWIN 5 unit apt house + 5 car garage & parking, 4- 2BR, 1 3BR, new windows/granite kit/bath, new heating, sep utility meters, centrally loc. $925K 631-478-7003
5080 BALDWIN 5 Unit apt house & 5 car garage & prking, 4 2BR, 1 3BR, granite kit/ba, new heating, sep meters, centrally loc. $122 K Gross $899 631-478-7003 5080 Buyer wanted for Glatt kosher LI catering hall seats 300 long lease reasonable rent Attractive terms. 516-987-1979 c8trr62@gmail.com 6000 SEAFORD RENT 2400SF Below Market Value, Merrick Rd, 3 mons/NO CHARGE, prime local, Busy area, Parking, Ideal for Office/Retail. OWNER 516-735-6288
Office/Commercial/ Business For Sale
5080
LONG ISLAND 5080 NORTHPORT FOR SALE BY OWNER Lot on Main Street, West of Church, NEAR ALL! 65’w x 153’d. Asking $190K/neg CALL OWNER 631-379-8987
WESTBURY – Commercial space 241 Post Ave. 2 story building. $350K 917-301-1625 5080
5080 CANDY / ICE CREAM/ COFFEE SHOP: Eastern Long Island, Busy, Great Buy. $139,900 516-523-4678
5000
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For Sale
5070
LONG ISLAND CEMETERY PLOTS FOR SALE Desirable single plot at Mount Ararat, Long Island. Price Negotiable. Call 646 249-5612
5070
5080 Why rent, when you can own for less? 750sq ft liquidation sale. LYNBROOK office/ co-op for sale. Completely renovated, 2 offices, 1 conference roo,, waiting area, bathroom, pool, gym, walk to LIRR. $119K must sell. $749 monthly maint 70% tax deductable. 516-359-4489
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For Sale
5040
LONG ISLAND 5040
CEDARHURST
Modern updated 3Br, 1.5Bth ,gourmet kitchen ,hardwood floors ,basement, large yard, Low Taxes $399K _____________________ Updated Brick SH Colonial 4Br, 2.5Bth ,jacuzzi, kitchen w/granite & SS appliances,hardwood floors, finished basement,detach garage $525K Owner 631-835-6077 L.I. HOMES FOR SALE HEMPSTEAD LEGAL 2 FAMILY $190K BAYSHORE 3BD HOME $175K DEER PARK 5 BD HOME $205K CALL FOR PRIVATE SHOWING, MORNING STAR REALTY ONE, ALEJANDRA, 631-484-1997 5040
House for rent Long island N WestHampton Summer Home Rental available from August 1-September 5 3 bedrooms= 2 bath Central AC and Pool Basketball court and Spacious grounds. Walk to House of Worship Asking $15,000. Call Donald (516) 652-9508 or Cindy (516) 641-7340 5060
5040 Hewlett: 4 BR cape, beautiful wood floors, EIK, large finished basement. 1 block from Yeshiva. Walk to train and town. Sale $299K or for rent. 347-539-7332 or 718-938-4517.
Lynbrook, NY: House for sale, 4 BR, 2bth, LR, DR, EIK, great location. Reasonably priced, call owner. 516-945-5268
5040
5040 Lawrence: Elegant Center Hall Colonial set back on 1/3 ACRE PRIME LOCATION, all shuls, LIRR, 12 rooms, 5 BR, 3.5 bth. Oversized BR, 3 walk-ins, fireplace, FDR, Pesach kit, circular driveway, maid’s room. Sunroom, decks, All systems. Central Air; Many more features. Email: elegantcolonial@hotmail.com Call 718-974-6766
Office/Commercial/ Business For Rent
4060
STATEN ISLAND (New Dorp) 2000 sq ft office space. Near train.Convenient to all. Pat 646-369-9457
Port Richmond-3 office suites w/reception area. All brand new, fully renovated C/A. full bsmt 2,700ft w/dual bthrms, new carpet. Please call: 347-424-7809
Apartment For Rent 3065
STATEN ISLAND WADING RIVER RETAIL SPACE WADING RIVER DRY CLEANERS FOR RENT AVAILABLE AUG 1ST BUSY SHOPPING CENTER. BELINDA 631-929-8400 6000
Staten Island-Condo for sale 2 bedroom, 1 bth condo, Rossville, bottom Floor, corner unit, central air, eat-in kitchen, living room, washer, dryer, pool, tennis court, parking space, $189k 917-693-8239
House
For Sale
4020
STATEN ISLAND 4020 Staten Island/ Willowbrook: Detached 6 BR, 3 bth all brick, 1 block from young Israel. Near express bus city. My owner 718-698-8425 or 917-576-6312 4020 STATEN ISLAND HOUSE FOR SALE// ROYAL OAKS “The best house in the best borough of the best city in the best country in the world” GO TO www.FRENCHMANORON CLOVELAKES.COM 917-622-3728
Apartment For Sale 3080
1000-STAPLETON Applications for the waiting list for rental units in Staten Island will be available to families with limited income, based on section 8 qualifications, beginning on April 19th 2010, call between 10am & 3pm 516-466-6527 Ext15&/26
Office/Commercial/ Business For Sale
4060
NY STATE COMMERICAL PROPERTY FOR LEASING OR SALE ULSTER COUNTY KINGSTON NY – REPUTABLE HISTORIC PROPERTY Perfect for Corporate Relocation. Great Location, near all Highways. Previously Operated by IBM, 212,000 SQFT. Extremely Low Operating Cost. Willing to Neg. For Leasing/ Sale for more info. Contact (917) 892-1090 Ali
Central Ave, Lawrence: 3000sf good condition, busy corner. Parking attached. Approved for food establishment. Call 917-975-7062
5080
MEDICAL OFFICE FOR LEASE OR SUBLEASE BY MD LOCATED AT 4111 18TH AVENUE BORO PARK PLEASE CALL DR. GERSHKOVICH TEL: 646-338-2422 EMAIL: ROBIT61@AOL.COM
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REAL ESTATE Liberty, NY – 2 – Story comm. Bldg for Retail or Warehouse On Main St. Surrounded by municipal parking. 2 x 5000sqft. Originally was a super market. $300,000/neg. Ask owner about finance options. 914-584-2982 1024
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6090
NY STATE Beth David Cemetery Elmont , NY save 50% off cemetery list. Choice location. $2500 each (the 5 plots available are together) with discounts for multiple plots. Call 718-541-1251 or e-mail:penguin@bway.net 9050
CLIFTON PARK, NY. Three Yr old Brick House w/3 adjacent approved building lots. Amenities Galore! Potential Family Compound. Open to reasonable offers – Owner’s cost $2.2 Million – Call 518-320-4960 6090
BUSINESS FOR SALE RESTURANT & CATERING 16,000 SQ. FT. Restaurant , Catering & Night Club on 6.6 Acre Land for Lease, Fully Equipped, 400 Seat Restaurant & Catering in Operation. Mid Hudson Valley Area. $850,000 Contact (914) 204-0329
6090
Restaurant for Sale Well Established Full Service Restaurant on 1 Acre in Beautiful Catskill NY $800,000 Contact Jimmy 518 755-0810. See Full Ad on Craigslist: http://newyork.craigslist. org/mnh/bfs/25120144 11.html. View our website at: http://www.tatianasitali anrestaurant.com 6090
6090 DUTCHESS COUNTY DALTON FARM – 1400 SQ FT TOWNHOUSE Furnished, 2 BDRM / 1.5 BTH, Country Setting (2) Floors, Garage, A/C, Fire Place, Pool, Tennis. Equestrian Area on Site.One Hour North of White Plains. $160./Month Fee. Taxes $7K $258,000.00. Contact (914) 472-3651
MONTICELLO: Morning acres. 5BR, 4bth house. Avail for July. Excellent location. Friendly colony. Heated pool and day camp. Call 718-377-6662
6090 Bensonhurst/Boro Park Warehouse/garage for lease 4,000 sq ft 23in high ceiling m zone 845-216-4407
6080
6090 Monticello, NY: 23 acres, 5 ranch houses on property + one main house with 6 apartments, swimming pool, underground pool and electric cables, well water, walking distance to walmart and shul. 718-848-6974 cell: 917-601-3002
For Rent
6080
NY STATE 6080 Monsey: Assisted living for elderly includes personal home care, 3 meals, day etc. 718-924-8067
Woodridge Sullivan County Summer rental Apt in private home on 2 acres 2BR/ 1 bath/ large living room/ modern kitchen/ Private entrance walking distance to worship. Minimum one month. Call Harriet. 212-284-5262
6080
Monsey: Assisted living for elderly includes personal, home care. 3 meals/day, etc. 718-924-8067
VACATION HOMES FOR RENT MONTICELLO: HIDDEN RIDGE HOMES AT KUTSHERS DESIGNER DELUXE HOMES.
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2 BR, 2
BTH,
BEAUTIFUL, FURNISHED.
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OSCAR PAVLOFF. WE HAVE KEYS. 845-794-3720 OR 845-434-7792 BROKER
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6080
6080 New Rochelle 3 Bd apt on 2nd & 3rd Fl in 2 Fam, 1.5 bths, Freshly painted, 2 car parking space, Nr Metro North Sta. H/HW incl., $1650/mo. Owner 212-518-1912/ 914-636-6716
6060 HOUSE FOR SALE, UPSTATE NEW YORK SWAN LAKE – 1800s Colonial Home, 11 Rooms, 4 BDRMS/2.5 BA 1900 SF, on One (1) Acre, Full Basement, 1 Car Garage with Storage, Fenced Yard, Extra Lot & Bungalo Included $350,000.00 Contact (845) 701-5517 6060 House for Sale/ Catskill NY : 3 family Income property on 4 and one half acres, highway commercial land w 700 ft. on a state road. 350 ft frontage on country road. Call Jimmy (518) 755-0810
6060 Catskills: Private New Country Cottage. Reduced to $159K. 1 BR, sleeping loft, nr Windhamm Ski Mtns. Min fr hiway. Owner 646-330-0927 or 914-235-1684
COMMERICAL PROPERTY FOR SALE, UPSTATE NY MOBILE HOME PARK FOR SALE IN ULSTER COUNTY, NY 9 UNIT, 2FAMILY BRICK HOUSE, 2CAR GARAGE, 4.70 AC, NICE AREA, ASKING $525.K HOLD MORTGAGE BANK RATE. CONTACT (347) 672-0989 6060
6060 Sackett Lake: Waterfront, magnificent views. Private road. 6BR, 4bth, fireplace. Near shul. 917-434-0349 or 845-406-4564
SWANLAKE: Winterized House 50x120 lot, $1200 maint/ tax year needs renovation quick sale $37K. Near shopping, transportation and shuls and kosher pizza. Wigs and wig machine for sale. Call 718-972-6068 6060
WESTCHESTER COUNTY: BEDFORD CENTER NEW LUXURY HOME IN BEDFORD-7500SQ FT-TASTEFULLY FINISHED-SPRING OCCUPANCY-FAVORABLE BUILDER-FINANCINGBROKERS. PROTECED. 914-245-9000 See WebID NS110220832 6060
Kimball & Yonkers Ave: Houses for sale $359,000 – 1 Family. 2 BR’s, living room, dining room & kitchen on 75 x 100 lot in 2 family zone. Finished basement with separate entrance. Garage. CAPOBIANCO REALTY 914-963-5522 6060
6060 Sullivan County: Monticello Country 4/bed 3bth home 4sale in the Catskills. 2 car gar, hrdwd flrs, all appl incl. Water View. COME TAKE A LOOK. 845-807-2486 See WEBID NS1104014930
Ballstan Spa – Ranch Model Home. Shocase of the home winner 4/ 2 ½ baths, central air, beautiful features. Costume made $525K 518-309-4707 or 518-894-2234 6060
Woodridge: 2 story 2BR home, 2 bths, large deck inground swimming pools, views. 2.56 acres. Walk to town. Price 225k. Call 845-791-0945 www.resortrealtyny.com
6060
6060 NEW LISTING: Lakewood Indian Park. 51,977sf 22-28 ceiling height. 4 loading, 1 drive in docks, $95sf. Principles only. 732-905-5606 or email at mehgh2011@yahoo.com 6060 South Fallsburg: Bungalow Colony, 29 units, for lease to camp/ group with option to buy. Please call: 347-350-5208 or 718-854-3434 6060 NEW ROCHELLE. OWNER FINANCING. Renovated 3 BR/ 2 BTH w/new bright. 1 BR/ 1 BTH in-law $724,000. 914-715-3494
COMMERCIAL OFFICES 4356sf on 2.79 acres.
ble to Rt. 17(I86)
PREFERRED HOMES & PROPERTIES (845) 482-4300 Email: diane@preferredhomes.net
Longport Beachblock Just steps to quiet point beach this home offers 5BRs, 3Bths, plenty of parking and great views!! Best availability location – easy to see – call today asking $2,199,000 Longport new construction – 2luxury homes offering 6BRs ocean and bay views and outstanding quality and design. Call today and you can be in it to enjoy our best timmme at the beach!! Builder is ready to negotiate. REMAX Platinum Properties 609-822-3300 Call Denise Gibbons 609-335-6181 cell stc 7030 WATERFRONT PROPERTY Estate $429,000. Berkshire, MA Four (4) Season Home W/Beach 2 BDRM, Fire Place, Great Room, Most Furnishings. Motivated Seller! Contact (413) 329-8090 RW
Margate: 1BR beautiful updated unit 19th floor panoramic kitchen and views newer kitchen views asking 485K price negotiable call Libby Epstein 609-709-2606
Only $399,900
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HOUSE FOR SALE, VIRGINIA FRANKLIN COUNTY, VA Gorgeous Custom Built Log Home Full Basement, Attached Garage, 6000 + SQ FT. Located 1.5 Mile from the Blueridge Parkway, 3BDRM/2.5BATH, 74 Acres W/Pond & Separate WorkShop/Garage Area. A Steal for just $430K! Contact (540) 3652004 or (540) 3520373 Email: hazelwortman@embarqmail.com 7030
Cape Cod 17 acre private island you can drive 4br residence, dock, huge boathouse, plus marine railway $995,000 Century 21 Bourne 800-439-2524 7030
FOR SALE RETAIL CENTERS METRO MEMPHIS, TN 47,290 SF
METRO NASHVILLE, TN 78,105 SF Lewis K. McKee, Jr. McKee and McFarland, Inc.
901-680-7700 macm@mckeeandmcfarland.com
7030 Cape Cod Oceanfront 2 Deep Water Docks 4 acres two bedroom house. Idyllic beachfront privacy 6M Century 21 800-425-2524 7030 Longport Beachblock with ocean and bay views dulex with units 2brs, 1 and ½ baths each could be a condo rehabbed to single family or erect all new “McMansion” ALSO wntnor – Bay front lot ARGUS RE contact 609-432-0460
PROVIDENCE, NC – Historic Andalusian Horse Ranch, 2 homes, 85 acres, 3 barns, 19 stalls, 8 horses, $595K, Ross Gregg: 904-608-0580 info@gregglifttrucks.com
7030
Your BLOCK ISLAND project. Yes, there is a safe real estate market
7030
7030
VACTION RENTAL OUT OF STATE MASSACHUSETTS RENTALS CAPE COD/CHATHAM Available Aug. 20th Aug. 27th , 4 BDRM/ 2 BTH, Large Deck, Walk to Town and Beach. Contact (781) 848-3754
Fishing, Hunting, Surfing, Wake/Boarding
Email: L.houck@bresnan.net 406-761-1851 or 9697
OUT OF STATE 7030
7030
WATERFRONT PROPERTY
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7030 N.CAROLINA – WATERFRONT PROPERTY 1.7A in Subdivision on Pamlico Sound Carteret County, Opposite Town of Oriental. Pay Mortgage Price $115,000.00 + 10% Comm. Contact (508)845-8011 Email jshirp@townisp.com
Currently medical officescan easily be reconfigured into any usage. 11,100sf parking area w/room to expand. Great location, easily accessi-
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6080 POCONO CONDO 2BR, 3BA 1300 square foot furnished walk to lake for swimming and fishing, Delaware national Park and ski nearby. $75K. 631-398-1725
Last year was the best year ever for Block Island real estate sales – ready to invest? Secluded pond frontage. Walking distance to ferry, village & two beautiful beaches. Five carefully-sited cottages built on this property will be the least expensive, most marketable new homes on the Island. Details: Peter H. Maxwell 860-202-0219
KOSHER BAKERY IN NORTH MIAMI BEACH FL for sale Excellent investment opportunity call for details 954-9597 7030
Available For Rent
7065
OUT OF STATE 7065 Boyton Beach: Lovely courtyard home 3BR/3ba; Enclosed pool, separate cabana private end lot; Lake View Shutters, New A/C, 2 car gar, EASY walk to local Chabad. Call 561-738-9772
Office/Commercial/ Business For Sale
7060
OUT OF STATE 7060 RESTURANT FOR SALE, LANCASTER PA VOTED TOP RESTURANT IN LANCASTER, #1 IN GOOGLE SPIRO GYRO. FANTASTIC MONEY MAKING RESTURANT FOR SALE, SUCCESSFULLY OPERATING IN DOWNTOWN LANCASTER, PA $150,000. FIRM. Contact Chris (717) 989-2873 RW
FOR SALE COFFEE SHOP RESTAURANT KOSHER DAIRY RESTAURANT KOSHER DAIRY/ UPPER WEST SIDE VERY GOOD TERMS
ASKING $70k
CALL OWNER 917-660-6005
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BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY • FINANCIAL SERVICES • LEGAL SERVICES Business Opportunity
BUSINESS OPTY Make $1,000.$5K/ MO. Doctors & Pharmacies Pay You! PHARMACY DISCOUNT PROGRAM CALL 1-866-233-4215 www.TimFreeBenefits.com/jv 7070
7070
UNIQUE BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY LOCAL BUSINESS SEEKS PARTNER/INVESTOR EMAIL: KJVENTURES1@GMAIL.COM OR CONTACT (347) 853-9047RW 7070
Vending company supply vending machine plus all merchandise. Everything strictly kosher we pay 25% commission. Call 917-697-5532 7070
BUSINESS CONNECTIONS: NYC Licensed Electrician-Looking for Partnership or Affiliation with Electric Contractor Engaged in or Starting Business in NYC . Day (347) 992-1370 / Evening (718) 339-7652RW 7070
HOUSES FOR SALE IN PENNSYLVANIA LET’S MAKE A DEAL! Retired Owner: Seven (7) Single Family Homes. AS IS! Investment Package $115,000. Contact (484)332-0247RW
7070
7070 BUSINESS OPTY RESORTS 360#1 TEAM 40K Ad Campaign Just Launched. Lots of Leads. Make $1000. - $5000. Wk
WWW.WORKWITHRON.COM
1-800-479-4876
7070 BUSINESS OPPTY FUNDING AVAILABLE – Use Our Equity to Fund Any Project 10M – 1B. QUICK CLOSING IN THE UK. Call World Business Ideas @ 1(800) 615-5994
INVESTORS NEEDED FOR BRIDGE LOAN A 13 yr old business seeks a $150,000 bridge loan to manufacture 1st shipment of patented product. Loan secured by product and patent assignment only. Send contact info and requirements to vcifunding@gmail.com 7070
ASSISTED LIVING FACILITY FOR SALE Located in Pocono Mountains in Pennsylvania. 44 Beds on 3 Acres. For info Call 570-269-4060 7070
SEEKING GOLD MINING JOINT VENTURE Asking $575 MM joint venture from serious investors to mine 530 Sq KM of high concentrated gold mining land in Ghana. Investors receive 55% equity, or lender takes 25% free equity on top of principal/interest payments. Principals only apply. Aurum.Celebrus@gmail.com 7070
7070 CAPITAL WANTED NEWPORT, R.I. DEVELOPER CONDO CONVERSION PROJECT. Seeking Equity Partners, Returns in Excess of 20%. Proof of Funds Required. (401) 619-4112 or (518) 878-9320 Tkupetez@gmail.com
US PATENT for Sale #6526612 for Unique travel pillow w/speaker for MP3’s, I-Pods, etc. 917-968-1048 or email uspatinfo@cs.com
Business Opportunity INVESTOR WANTED – $500K, Guarantees. Well established Automotive Rebuildable Business. Invest your Money in a most Liquid Commodity in the World. Contact (646) 287-1402 7070
7070
KOSHER MARKET ESTABLISHED, 45 yrs, lower Westchester, seeks working partner to expand in new direction. Experienced, talented + Computer savvy. Call Mr. Cohen 914-373-1802 7070
7070 South Shore only glatt kosher take-out & butcher shop in town for sale. 15 yrs in Busn. No competition. Best Loc. Low rent. Excel income. Grt Oppty. Priced for quick sale. 347-517-8818
BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY OIL AND GAS LEASES Producing Oil & Gas Leases with Semi Proven Development. Drilling Acreage Locations. All Leases Bears 100% W.I. 75% Revenue. Call (325) 668-6000 7070
BELIZE – Ambergus Caye – N San Pedro. Thirty American condo owners want you to own their resort. We will let you rent them out! Tom 406-580-5568 or Email: STC1006@QWESTOFFICE.NET 7070
BUSINESS OPPTY GOLD INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITY PRINCIPAL SEEKS $1.0 MILLION PARTNER. FULLY SECURED. $1.7 Billion Plus Potential Request details @ dougcannday@hotmail.com or Contact Doug (303) 681-6920 7070
7070
VENTNOR: Singles 40-50 Block from beach Long Season All amenities Laurel 215-219-9358
7020
7070
TIRED OF BIG OIL RIPPING YOU? Save 20% on Fuel – Really! Not a Gimmick, Gadget, Tablet or Card. Real Fuel Science that Really Works or $ Back. Contact (260) 637-5775 (DIST. WANTED) 7070
7070 Fund any project 10 million to 1 billion Call Bill 334-435-6013
BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY CAPITAL WANTED – INVESTORS NEEDED FOR MUSICAL SHOW. ESTABLISHED LAS VEGAS MUSICAL SHOW IS EXPANDING. EXCELLENT INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITY. YOU WILL DOUBLE YOUR INVESTMENT IN ONE (1) YEAR. CONTACT (212) 537-9205 EMAIL: INFO@AMERICASSOULM USIC.COM
BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY 100,000 RX Cards Placed in 80 Pharmacy Locations @ .03 each. You Earn $1.50 for each new & $.75 for Refills. Compounding Residual Income. Contact (877) 308-7959 X 231 Website: WWW.FREERXADVANTAGE. COM
7070
BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY BUSINESS FOR SALE ATHLETIC TRAINING FRANCHISE IN CLIFTON PARK, UPSTATE NEW YORK. Seeking Doctors, Chiropractors, Phyiscal Therapist. Day Hours Unused & Still Profitable. PROTECTED CAPITAL DISTRICT TERRITORY. $750K Contact Jack (518) 879-4002 Website:WWW.ATHLETICREPUBLICCP.COM
7070 For sale coffee shop/ restaurant kosher dairy/ upper west side very good terms asking $70k call owner 917-660-6005
8% on Very Safe $170K Mortgage, House sold for $335K, 51% Loan to sales price, 3200 sq ft home in gated comm. All due in 4 yrs. Why earn only 2% on CD’s? OWNER 817-579-5222 7070
INVESTOR(S) NEEDED INVESTOR(S) NEEDED FOR SHORT TERM BRIDGE LOAN A 13 yr old business seeks a $150,000 bridge loan to manufacture 1st shipment of a soon to be patented product. Loan secured by product only. Send contact info and requirements to
vcifunding@gmail.com.
BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY “WONDERFLOWERS” – UNIQUE BULBS, TURN A $500. CASE INTO $3,000. – SELL AT FARMERS AND OR/ FLEA MARKETS, HARDWARE STORES, PRODUCE STANDS & MORE. CONTACT AL (317) 408-4118 AND EMAIL FLOWERBULBKING@YAHOO.COM
7070
7020 Absecon 4 Plex 2 commercial and residential with parking lot. Three already rented $330,000 609-377-7109
7070 SEEKING FUNDING Attractive Interest Return Seeking Working Capital Boston Subcontractor seeking short term funding or 10% more on return tomsloane2003@yahoo.com Thomas P. Sloane 617-799-2404
8.5% Return European Microfinance Geocapital Secured – Short Term Investment $5K - $60K Accounts Available invest@geocapital.ge 800-276-1468 www.geocapital.ge 7070
6% - 7% INTEREST ONLY 7070
Paid Monthly Lend on an interest only apartment building note/ mortgage, 1st lien position. Properties located in AAA area's in Miami-Dade. Loan to Value below 70% and DSCR greater than 1.5. Yields Paid Monthly via ACH to your bank account. Inspect properties, rent roll, and profit statements. Call for more details:
305-858-4058
Great Opportunity! Home phone, business phone services for only $39. Tax included. Unlimited USA/Canada. All features included. Call 845-637-7352
7070
PIZZA SHOP: For sale in Midwood, BKLYN. By owner. Call 718-2531896 or 347-522-8896 7070
Fund Any Project 10 million to 1 billion Call Bill 334-435-6013
7070
DORE BARS $32,000 per kilo (92% - 22K) Hand delivered to NYC - FMI: gold@amefricaltd.com 7070 Online Auction Alabama I-65 Building *Freeway Access* Sells to highest bid TheRealEstateClearingHouse.com 800-499-9378
Excellent Business Opportunity Property is excellent for Multiple Business. Owner retiring. 2+ Million in sales yearly, Full Service Liquor license and business operating for 43 years. 7,000 +/sq ft bldg, 2 ac of land. May include 3 bedroom house, also zoned Commercial. $1,500,000. Nino Trujillo 505-456-8179 Mike Liguori 505-620-7166 7070
Capital Wanted. 60% GROSS to investors FILM: Industry Pros producing for cable Int’l, VOD & DVD. Bug $705K. MI 250K. GP $3M. SIO 860-490-2866 7070
Own your own business. County Resource Guide Licenses Available Nationwide. $35,000 complete. Financing available to qualified persons. Training provided. 877-826-1515 7070
Investors Only
Financial Services
7080
ASK THE EXPERT RABBI SHLOMO FOGEL ANY PROBLEMS WITH SOCIAL SECURITY, DISABILITY, SSI AND MEDICARE
718-252-0336 First Consultation only $40 Satisfaction guaranteed
FINANCIAL SERVICES OLIVE BRANCH COMMERICAL CAPITAL WE FUND ALL TYPES OF COMMERICAL LOANS CONTACT: (877) 770-4447
7080
WORKING CAPITAL VITAL CASH FLOW.BIZ UNSECURED Working Capital in 72 HOURS! 1-888-465-0247 7080
FUND ANY PROJECT 10 Million to 1 Billion Call Bill 334-435-6013 7080
Rockaway Park 1BR with private entrance EIK terrace $1100/mo Plus gas and electric. Heat included References and credit check required Call owner 646-915-6984stc
7080
Tutors
3005
The academic edge the math and English specialists total preparation for ELA, PSAT, SAT specialized high school exams, GRE, expert tutoring and regents prep in English writing math professional guidance in writing the college essay we meet your child’s needs individual or small group sessions call Doreen or stu at 718-646-6876 or 917-957-7416 stc 3005
10% DOWN GOOD NEWS TO INVESTORS. YOU CAN GET YOUR PROJECTS FUNDED NOW WITH JUST 10% DOWN – REAL ESTATE, ENERGY, TECHNOLOGY, MINES AND MORE. PRELIMINARY REQUIREMENTS 1) BUSINESS PLAN 2) PROOF OF DOWN-PAYMENT FUNDS.
Contact Lester Phillip for detail. lester@sikamangroup.com Office: 212-695-1716 www.sikamangroup.com
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JOBS WANTED & SERVICES OFFERED Music
8000
8000 Individualized Guitar Lessons Geared for all skill levels by a professional musician in your home Philadelphia & South Jersey 201-723-2225 stc 8000 JEWISH MUSIC LESSONS: Guitar, Piano, Bass & Drums. Individual or group lessons for all ages. In my Queens studio or I will travel to your home. Credentials include a BA in Music performance, a MS ED in Music Education, NYS Certification and 20+ yrs of performing & teaching music. Rates are $40 for 40 min lesson & $50 for a 1HR lesson. Excellent refs avail. Call Yerachmeil at 917-373-9613
MUSIC INSTRUCTION Piano lessons all levels + ages Professional musician + experienced teacher Call (917) 459-1228 8000
Music Instruction Berkeley College of music professor available for private drum lessons. Conatct: 617-835-6404
Health
8010 Mature English Lady seeks Companion/Aide position, Full or Part time. Kindly call Addy 718-928-6600 MK
8010 HOME HEALTH AIDE Certified Home Health Aide seeking a job to care for the elderly or sick. Honest, caring and easy to get along with. Available for Nights or Weekends. Excellent refs. PLEASE CONTACT 973-667-6815 or 862-220-1331 or Email: queenjeneva@1yahoo.com MK
Babysitter / Nanny / HHA / Housekeeper / Office Cleaner Available-ReliableTrustworthy Affordable rates 347-785-0181
9050 Brazilian Bodywork Swedish, Deep Tissue, Full Bodywork, Done byMale Masseur. (917) 435-4418
7090 THERAPUETIC MASSAGE Looking for relaxing stress free, therapeutic massage? You can drop into my place. For ½ hr $50, 1 hr $75. 8:30 am – 7:30 pm 917-544-7900
7090 SUSAN TEEMAN: Life coach, help one find Oneself. Em Body both Work & pleasure. Call 212-744-7837
7090 Life Coach SUSAN TEEMAN LIFECOACH. Free one hour Phone Consultation •Find balance in work & life •Set & Execute goals to overcome obstacles •Improve business & personal relationships •Discover what you should be doing •Become your BEST self susanteeman.com 646-481-2520
MELT 2-5 LBS PER WEEK. Try it for $4.95 For 2 weeks. For details call ANN 347-561-6030 7090
Help Offered
8010
8010 SEEKING POSITION Experienced Shomer Shabbos male seeking superintendant position. Call 347 607-9375 FA
MARKETING MANAGER GREAT WORKING ENVIRONMENT IN BROOKLYN MILL BASIN JOB POSITION AVAILABLE FOR TEAM LEADER PRODUCT UPLOADS CUSTOMER SERVICE OR MASNAGING EBAY AND AMAZON ACCOUNTS PLEASE CALL LEVI 917-855-7169 8010
8010
8010 Sales new York life insurance company is looking for insurance and financial services sales representatives. Sales experience helpful but not necessary. Comprehensive training program management opportunity for qualified candidates. Equal opportunity employer For further information call George at 646-227-8171stc
7090
7090 HEALTH MASSAGE & REFLEXOLOGY TO Heal Back Pain, Sleeping Disorders, Digestive Problems & More or Simply for Relaxation. Call Chaya (347) 756-0205. Treatments for Women & Children Only. Home Visits & Gift Certificates Available.
8010 Caregive, HHA. 5yrs USA experience. Live-in, looking for Position in Queens. 718-506-2548
8010 ELDERCARE / COMPANION, Nurse’s Assistant, Live In/Out, EXPERIENCED, Lic. to drive, Good References, 732-313-6829 732-277-9271MK
24 Hr DAY CARE Mon – Fri Queens Village-centrally located. From 6 wks to 12 yrs. Licensed, CPR, First Aide Certified, Clean, Video Camera, Meals provided. In business for 10 yrs. Affordable prices. 718-217-7666 8010
CAREGIVER SERVICE 30 years experience with references & own transportation. Will live in or fit your schedule. BUCKS County area only. Call 215-674-3339
8010
Tree Service, Gardening, SUKKAH Clearance, Free Estimates, 24/7 Emergency Service, Construction Clean outs. 347-889-8602 / 718-857-0549 8010
Marketing manager (bold) great working environment in Brooklyn Mill Basin Job position available for team leader, product uploads customer service of managing ebay and amazon account Please call Levi 917-855-7169 8010
SEEKING HOUSEHOLD POSITION HEALTH – LICENSED HOME CARE PROVIDER – Former Nurse, HCP Certified, Home Total Care, Geriatrics Specialty. 10 + Years Exp, Reliable. Best References. CONTACT: (718) 460-5272 or (917) 995-2404
SOURCE AGENCY Hiring RETAILSALES / HOST/ STOCK/ CASHIERS. Upscale retail client, temp openings. Must be reliable, dedicated friendly. Open interviews @ The Source Mon – Fri 10am to 1pm. 295 Madison Ave. 8th Fl. Resume & 2 IDs required 212-949-8287 8010
8010 BABYSITTING Very caring mother wants to take care of kids in her own home. Very clean environment & a loving atmosphere. Newborns to 2 yrs old. Available Mon – Fri & weekends too. 718-591-9164
MATURE SINGLE LADY seeks room $450-$500 per month in Bensonhurst, Bath Beach or Gravesend area. Also SEEKING EMPLOYMENT as: Caregiver / Housekeeper / Babysitter 718-266-7295 8010
8010 HOME HEALTH AIDE – (Private) Hardworking, reliable, personable, licensed, many years of experience, excellent refs. Call BARBARA 347-383-5462. Exp in kosher homes.
HELP OFFERRED COMPANION/ELDERLY CARE – Look no Further, we Highly Recommend this Honest and Kind Caregiver for your Elderly. Refs. Upon Request. Contact (917)968-0112 8010
8010 Experienced CNA looking for full time employment licensed seeking to take care of elderly 7 days a week. Specializing in Alzheimers and bed ridden patients. Good references. Please call 862-218-3880
Experienced Lady Seeking to care of the Elderly / Housekeeper 718-703-1730 8010
8010
EUROPEAN LADY (American citizen), looking for a live-in Caregiving job, I am exp’d & have exc. Refs & drive my own car. Call 908 937-0768 8010
Janitorial services family owned and operated over 15 years in NJ & PA Free estimate. Call 856-396-5915 9050
Educated lady with 8yrs experience with elderly seeks companion job. Experienced in medical/ non medical area of care. Excellent references From employ. Call 347-998-1170
8010
8010 HELP OFFERRED NURSING ASSISTANT – (Private) Hardworking, Reliable, Personable, Licensed, Many Years of Experience in Kosher Homes. . Excellent Refs. Contact Barbara (347) 383-5462
HELP OFFERRED NURSE, MALE – Seeking Job in Priv Residence to Care for Adult or Child Highly Qualified. Available NY, NJ, CT & LI. Contact (954)588-3139 8010
8010 I am looking for a job: Those who are struggling to get a honest (110%), smart, responsible and respectful employee. Yes I am here! I can help & handle any business owner to bust their business. Pl call 212-470-9611 mdlitonkhan@gmail.com
A nanny – Experienced NANNY sks FT, live out position. Loving & caring. Certified infant care. Checkable references. Please call Clair: 347-721-4056 or 718-221-4419
8010
Health – HHA & CNA w/ good references & 16yrs in field. Take care of your loved ones, w/dementia & or other illnesses. Avail ASAP! Call 917-807-4766 8010
HOME HEALTH AIDE Experienced CNA Eldercare / Baby care 347-469-2767 Available ASAP
8010
CERTIFIED, RELABLE CNA/HHA seeks job to care for the elderly. Many years exp Excellent References. Available immediately. (917)741-3583 8010 Seeking job to take care of the elderly. Home health aid, 16 years experience. Please call 718-882-5244
NESI (NonPublic Educational Services, INC) has provided much needed educational programs to atrisk youth across the country for more than 30 years. We are seeking part-time Title I teachers for our Title I program in NYC. 8010
Successful candidates must have a bachelor’s degree and/or teacher certificate. CAR/ SAVE (child abuse, violence intervention and prevention) workshops required. Seeking part-time Middle and High School Math teachers also. Please email resume to mlee@nesieducation.org or mail to 1212 Avenue M, Brooklyn NY 11230 ATTN M. LEE 8010 SALES New Y ork Life Insurance Co is looking for isurance and financial services sales representatives. Sales experience helpful but not necessary. Comprehensive training program management oppty for qualified candidates. Equal oppty employeer. M/F/D/V. For Information, please call George at 646-227-8171
Position Wanted: Experience in banking compliance research administration. Oral + written. Communication skills. 718-968-3213 8010
PROFESSIONAL LIGHTHOUSE HOME SERVICES. Compassionate Home Care FOR THE ELDERLY IN NYC. Lic Agency providing the finest in home care for your loved ones. Email: rbecker@lighthousehs.com or call 718-389-3304 We accept Medicare /Medicaid/private pay 9050
Responsible and honest HHA/ CAN with over 16 years experience. Looking for a job to care for the elderly. Live out only. Excellent references. Willing to start immediately. Call Monica 347-451-4409 or 718-469-1798
8010
I am a LPN – private provider w/8 yrs of hospital & home care exp. Seeking a private duty or Medicad homecare case – pediatric or adult. Days/ Nights, Any boro. Have car, Will travel. Call 718-581-8570 8010
8010 I am a certified and licensed HHA with many years exp. Seeking job to care for the elderly, willing to cook, clean etc. Excellent references. Live in/out. Call Jennifer 347-965-4506
I am a certified HHA: Companion/ Aide seeking job to care for the elderly. 14 years experience. Loving and caring. Live in only. Excellent references. Loving and caring. Live-in only. Excellent references available. Willing to start immediately. Call 973-592-608 8010
Responsible and honest: HHA/ CAN with over 16 years experience , looking for a job to care for the elderly. Live out only. Excellent references. Willing to start immediately. Call Monica 347-451-4409 or 718-469-1798 8010
8010 CHAUFFER: Driver, courteous, reliable with a clean driving record. Solid Refs. Seeking a position. (Amazingly Talented Person) Contact 917-771-3405
8010 Chauffer: Have my own gorgeous super luxury JAGUAR SEDAN, looking for an exclusive contract with a family. Solid refs + I speak many languages (amazingly talented person) 917-771-3405
NURSE looking for private duty CNA/ LPN position. 25 years of experience. Day or night. References available. Call 917-573-1937 or 718-479-7113 lv msg. 8010
Companion Aide. Live in, Good references. Kosher experience. 17 years, experience. 973-592-6081 8010
8010 Goldstein Home Care Service. Live in/ Live out or hourly. Companion Aide 732-788-1974
8010 Nurse LPN. Medicaid provider seeks private duty or Medicaid case. Good references available. 718-581-9786
Reliable Nurses’ Aide w/10 yrs exp. Will care for you in your home. Refs & good driving record. Seek job Asap. Call Babs 407-936-4863 8010
SMALL GROUP DAYCARE Experienced warm loving care. Ex-RN from Israel willing to care for children from 0 to 2 years old, in my home at Ave M + East 5th Street Transportation avail 347-283-5516
8010
8010 Dating & Relationships Group. Develop communication skills for social and intimate settings. Weekly group sessions led by psychotherapist Phyllis Tompkins Ph. D. 917-741-1120
Attn: Small business owners! Get you’re A/P,A/R, & PR done for a flat monthly fee – less than you would pay for a bookkeeper’s weekly salary. Over 30 years experience. Pick-up and Del service. Synagogue experience. Call or email for info & rates: (732) 503-4343 or efficientbooks@comcast.net
8015
8015 An experienced young orthodox chazzan baal tefillah became available for the yomim noraim references. Available Call 347-645-1240
8015 Caregiver kind and honest for sick/elderly live oout. Own car executive references call me 215-909-3222stc
Expert on Israeli Politics + Policy w/ Rich editorial exp. Seeks employment mobile: 917-225-7665
BOOKKEEPPER in Brooklyn looking for position. 15+ years experience, bi-lingual. I work efficiently and with extreme accuracy. Kindly call or email: 718-216-7842 or email Mmariaoro@optonline.net
8015 REGISTERED NURSE: 30 YRS experience seeking employment in community health facility, private practice, senior center or home care. Call 718-634-8029
8015
8015
8015 Experienced certified HHA seeks position to care for elderly with Alzheimer’s, stroke etc… Live-in 7 days/WK. Good references. Call 862-218-3880 8015 Experienced & Certified teachers for Yeshivah HS Science – Biology, Physical Sci, Earth Sci – Regents courses & Special Ed Substitute Teacher – Ivrit – Hebrew Lang & Lit (September – Mid October) Excellent terms & Salary Please send resume to: szeit1026@yahoo.com
Physical therapy Office looking for Physical therapy Assistant (PT/FT) In Five Towns. If interested please Call (516) 650-5756 8015
Real Estate agents make extra money astor brokerage Real Estate center serving the Kew Garden Hills community is seeking new local agents We will train you Call Chanita 718-263-4500 8015
8015 SIMPLY THE BEST EMPLOYMENT AGENCY we offer eldercare, companions, housekeepers, babysitters, all with excellent references and experience. Licensed and board agency live in/out 718-332-7606
8015 Real Estate Sales Agents Make Extra Money! Astor Brokerage (bold) Real Estate Center serving the Kew Garden Hills community is seeking new local agents. We will train you Call Chanita for info (718)263-4500
8015 Warm responsible woman looking to be a shadow for your child in Boro Park/ Flatbush/Manhattan. Call 718-437-9152 or cell 917-627-3542 Many years exp. Avail for summer or winter
A CNA experienced in elder care IRISH woman. Prefer Mahattan, lv-in/out. References and information. 914-272-9590 8015
A Certified Nurses Aide/ HHA available to care for the sick or elderly or childcare. Kind, caring people person. Lv-in/ out, day or night. Also cleaning, cooking & laundry. Recent Checkable refs. Call Joyce 516-334-7859 or 516-236-2833
8015
8010
8010 Administrative / Executive Assistant Part time/Full time. 19 years experience. 718-805-1448
Rabbi / Partner wanted for completed development adjacent to Oorah in Stamford, NY. Call 607-652-3387
8015
Help Wanted
8015 EXPERIENCED Lady Lifeguard available for the summer. LTI and WSI certified. Call 347-782-7714
Serious keyboard player needed for gigs & showcases around the world. Youtube.com “Project 6 reunion” Call 973-207-2604
An extraordinary loving companion Great skills and dependable. FT/PT 212-579-9692
8015
Professional Nasdaq / futures day trader seeking serious investor to make huge profits averaging 300%+ Low risk. Call Mark 917-825-0053
8015
TEACHER DIRECTOR with NYS teacher’s certificate in edu. For small Brooklyn daycare center. Call 718-385-0571
8015
8015 Looking for religious Jewish workers in the “HASHGACHA” field Kosher supervision. Option for training top become a “SHOCRET” Opening available for fully Certified SHU”B Midwest locs: NE, MN, WI Call: 303-810-8011 Email: moshedenver@aol.com
DOMESTIC HELP WANTED. HOME HEALTH AIDE NEEDED. Certified experienced 5 days/week, must have car. 516-3794283 Merrick, NY 8015
AARP FOUNDATION WORKSEARCH Are you…age 55 and older? Unemployed? Low income? Unemployed? Low income? Resident of Queens? Looking for permanent? AARP Foundation WorkSearch, Senior training Program can help! Please call 718-433-0010 Ask to speak with an employment specialist. 8015
Cleaning Services
8045
ARI’S CLEANING MOLD REMOVAL AND INSPECTIONS COMPLETE WATER RESTORATION CERTIFICATION TECHNICIANS 24 HOUR EMERGENCY SERVICES 347-743-3940 9050
9015 JANITORIAL SERVICES family owned and operated. Over 15 years in NJ and PA. Free estimate call 856-396-5915
S+S Rubbish Removal: All clean up. Yard / Basement/ garage. Free estimate. S+S Rubbish Removal, Demolition. Shomer Shabos. Call 347-404-1643
9015
8015 A loving nanny with excellent reference seeks full-time/part time position in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Riverdale. Call 917-674-2445
9015 Brooklyn Sanitation Rubbish Removal Backyard cleanouts apartment specializing in both commercial and residential same day service shomer shabbos Call owner:718-243-2525
REAL ESTATE SALES AGENTS: Make extra money! Astor brokerage. Real Estate Center. Serving the Kew Garden Hills Community is seeking local agents. We will train you! Call Chanita for info 718-263-4500
Bonded and insured kosher trained polish/English speaking European Expert care. Licensed Home Care Agency. Elderly care – house keeping. RNs, CPN, HHA, PCAs. Live-in/ out. Avail call 718-349-0099
8015
8045
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Improvement 8081
GENERAL HOME REPAIR HONEST PLUMBING RELIABLE HEATING AIR CONDITION AFFORDABLE SHEETROCK/PLASTER/PA INT 24 HOUR EMERGENCY SERVICE ODDS AND ENDS ARYEH CALL 347-232-3700 8081
We meet or beat any price interior demolition one stop backyard basement clean out stop violations. Same day 24/6 licensed insured call 718-243-2525 9050
Painting, sheetrocking 20 years experience Insured No job too big or small. For quality Call John Today at 718-898-7560 917-359-4579
9050
8080 Mike’ s Home Improvement/ Roofing Sheet rock/ tiles, Kitchen/ Bath, Gutters + Leaders. 718-426-2167
I AM A PLUMBER (Boiler & Heating) LOOKING FOR WORK. Henry 718-809-6150 Reasonable rates! 24HR Service 8080
THE MENCH OF AFFORDABLE HANDYMAN. SPECIALIZING IN ALL FORMS OF HOME IMPROVEMENT KITCHENS, BATHROOMS, BASEMENT, ROOFING, SIDING, CAC, STORM DOORS, WINDOWS & ENTRY DOORS. LICENSED & INSURED. CHECKABLE REFS AVAIL. SEE PICS ON FACEBOOK. AFFORDABLE MENCH. CALL 516-297-4316 ALFONSVAINO@YAHOO.COM
8081 INTERIOR PAINTING FAUX FINISHES & MURALS MON – SAT 10AM – 6PM CALL 917-589-9601 www.colorwisedesignsllc.com
ROOFING & SIDING OCEANFRONT CONSTRUCTION CORP. *QUALITY FULL SERVICE* ROOFING – SIDING – LEADERS – GUTTERS JOHN NIES, Owner 347-680-6782 Licensed & Insured. Member BBB – A+ Rating
8081
One source Home Inspection serving the NY area. From foundations to the roof. Anthony 917-577-8464 8081
ALFA CONTRACTING -Custom Cabinetry -Kitchen remodeling -Home offices -Home Entertainment -Space Efficiency -Free Estimates -We’re in the neighborhood “NO JOB TOO SMALL” $100 off WITH THIS AD www.alfacontractingny.com 212-234-5878 rosstfrench@aol.com 8081
Exterminators 8075
M AND K PEST CONTROL SPECIAL PRICE FOR BED BUGS SENIOR CITIZEN DISCOUNT REASONABLE AND RELIABLE SOURCES LICENSD AND INSURED CALL OWNER 917-304-8777 BED BUG SPECIALIST Professionally Dry Clean: Clothing – Linens – Drapes. Discreet and reliable. Pick up and delivery/ Unmarked van. Call toll free! 1-888-241-2199 8075
BROOKLYN’S BEST BED BUGS, RATS. MONTHLY PEST CONTROL. RESIDENTIAL, COMMERCIAL, AFFORDABLE, RELIABLE. FRANK 718-415-6920
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Painting, sheetrocking, 20 years experience insured. No job too big or too small. For quality, Call John today at 718-898-7560 or 917-359-4579 8080
Handyman: Quick service at low prices, carpentry, sheet roc, plastering, painting, electric + plumbing. Replace old toilets, sinks, electric fixtures and windows 917-385-8587
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9000 Painting, sheetrocking: 20 years Experience. Insured. No job too big or too small. For quality, Call John today at 718-898-7560 or 917-359-4579
HANDYMAN AVAILABLE!!! Carpentry, Tile, Plumbing, Landscaping, Painting, Furniture, Asembly. Reasonable rates, Friendly service Call Orrin 646- 671- 3906 ingramo@earthlink.net
SEEWALD USED CARS New! Preview over 4,000 vehichle odessy mini vans 12-6passanger vans 718-773-CARS 773CARS@gmail.com 9030
snowbirds your car is waiting for you at the airport gently transported valid driver’s licensed/insured Linda’s Transport 215-244-2662
9030
CALL NOW ANYTIME, ANYWHERE Accepting cars, trucks, vans & farm Equip. Any condition. Cash Pd 7 days/wk. (732) 915-7989 9030
9030 AUTO FOR SALE FORD FUSION 2010 4 Door Sedan, 7,000 Mi, Original Owner, Asking $17.K Contact (516) 242-5833
CHEVY 1996 IMPALA SS Rare green Immac. 21k $28,500 516-383-6326
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Electricians TRACK BY JACK 917-748-7225 74 TRACK 914-725-0785 TRACK LIGHTING SPECIALISTS INSTALLATION SALES UPDATE OLD CANS WITH SMALL EFFICIENT LOW VOLTAGE HALLOGENS WHOLESALE BULBS DELIVERED 8065
9050 Top Security! Alarm and camera system phone and intercom system. computer working and all electrical needs. new line fixtures call now for free estimate Reuben 718-431-4408 Free Estimates & Low Prices!
Electrician All electrical needs. New lines Trouble shouting fixtures. Call Yahuda: 347-631-0481
Autos
9015WE MEET OR BEAT ANY PRICE. Interior demolition, One stop backyard basement clean out. Stop violations. Same day 24/7. Licensed & Insured. 718-243-2525
D.L.M CONSTRUCTION Licensed and Insured New Construction, Extension and Complete Renovation, 25 Years Experience Free Estimate 917-968-6809
AUTOS WANTED CASH CASH CASH Junk Cars & Trucks Wanted $600 & up FREE Pick-ups! 718 657-6900 9030
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8081 LICENSED & INSURED ALG AWNING When the sun gives you a fight, We make it alright. Free InHome Estimates Free InHome Renderings 20 YEARS EXPERIENCE COMMERCIAL RESIDENTIAL RETRACTABLE AWNINGS, PATIO AWNINGS, RCOVERS, ALUMINUM AWNINGS, CAR PORTS, REHANGS/TAKE DOWNS, TRUCK LETTERING, GRAPHICS, RAILS, GENERAL WELDING tel: 718-909-7195 toll free: 888-853-0442 web:algawning.com email: info@alg-awning.com 2943 Falcon Ave., Far Rockaway NY, 11691 SPECIAL DISCOUNT IF YOU MENTION THIS AD WHEN YOU CALL
9030 TOYOTA SIENNA 2007 Tan color, auto start, DVD, CD, all pwr, good condition, 39K mi, All wheel, ask . 917-853-9023, 718-217-7666
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9030 Bala Cymoyd: 3 BR, 2 BA brick colonial, full bsmt, attached garage. Asking $430,000. Call 973-985-8789
NATIONAL MOTOR CLUB: Auto and personal injury coverage. Anywhere in the US, Mexico, Canada. $18/month, 60% off prescription medications. Call Francisca 347-320-3890 Salesperson wanted. 9030
9030 MUST SELL! 2009 BMW 335d Like new condition. More pictures at robertbrown201@yahoo.com Robert Brown: 361-237-4612
9030 2010 Lincoln Town Car dark blue, light tan interior. 5 months old, low mileage, one owner. Perfect condition $38K. Contact Alex 203-746-0181. Lv Msg. 9030 20 PASSENGER MINI-BUS YEAR 2000. PLUS ELECTRONIC HANDICAP DOOR. EXCELLENT CONDITION. GREAT PRICE 917-482-5580
TRUCK FOR SALE: 2003 Ford Crew Cab Model #450 with utility body 30,000 miles. 4xs4 with fisher stainless steel plow diesel $19K. Plus 2005 Ford Crew Cab Model #350 4x4 Diesel tool box + racks. New seats, also hare ladder racks. Owner retiring. Contact 201-207-5533 or 201-436-0447 9030
contents of shul for sale sefer torah, bimah, chairs, etc. call 917-397-0654 stc
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9040 Old Watches Clocks wanted by collector regardless of condition Highest prices paid. 212-517-8725 stc
For Sale Hair Dryer, Punch Bowl, TV Cart, Set of dishes, Blender, Antique Chair, Dehumidifier, Washer and Dryer, Desk Fan Laundry Hamper, Complete Day Bed, Crock pot. 718-337-3867 stc
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9040 JUDAICA museum quality collection others silver, illuminated manuscripts, paintings, enamels Call 914-235-8300 stc
13K 100% Cotton Men’s dress shirts, assorted cuffs, shipped from NJ. Regular, Big & Tall sizes. Close out prices. Call 917-497-5070 apparelgroupny@gmail.com 9040
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I buy old paintings Call Art at 732-261-3269
ESTATE SALE /HOME FURNISHINGS HOME – TAG ALONG ESTATE SALE Old Greenwich Water Front Estate Rocky Point Road. August 12th & 13th From 10:0– 4:00 PM Steinway Grand Piano, Rugs, Furniture & Antiques + Lots of Books. Take I 95 N to Exit 5 Old Greenwich, Right on US1 1ST Right on to Sound Beach Ave. thru Town, Right on Shore Drive, 2nd Left Rocky Point Road. (914) 261-0095 9040
Americana Collection American Mechanical Muscle 1850-2000 140+ Diecast Models, 200 + Plastic kits 98% NIB 290+itemdescriptive & historical books$20K/OBO Eric @ 860-683-2140 Leave name, phone # & Best times for callback 9040
9040 Kawai Baby Grand piano. Ebony satin finish, excellent condition. Contact 978-505-0971
ESTATE SALE / HOME FURNISHINGS HOME – TAG ALONG ESTATE SALESCOLLEGE ROAD,RIVERDALE, N.Y. Thursday Aug. 4th 4:00 to 8:00 PM Friday Aug. 5th 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM. Hudson River Oil Painting, Chickering Baby Grand Piano, Crystal Silver China, Books, Linens, Adams Style Gilt Mirror, Painted Chest, + Lots More. Contact (914) 261-0095
Pets 9035
FORD MODEL T Custom Built 1927 Recreation, 350 Chev Crate Engine, 350 3Spead Chev Auto Trans, Alum Stronge Rear End. All Wheel Disc Brakes. A Frame Coil Over Suspension, Ultra Leather Interior, Salt Flat Alum Rim, Weighs 2000 Lbs. 1500 Miles. Contact Cor @ (519) 861-7701 RW Ford Model T-Custom Built 1927 Recreation, 350 Chev Crate Engine, 350 3-Spead Chev Auto Trans, Alum Stronge Rear End. All Wheel Disc Brakes. A Frame Coil Over Suspension, Ultra Leather Interior, Salt Flat Alum Rim, Weighs 2000 Lbs 1500 Miles. Contact Cor @ (519) 861-7701 RW 9030
AUTO REPAIRS BILLY’S AUTO REPAIR 3651 Danbury Rd., Brewster, NY 10509 Specializing in Complete Automotive Repairs & Service Front-End Brakes Tune –up Electrical Wheel Alignment, etc. Open Mon-Sat 8:00 AM-5:00 PM Call 845 278-2628 24 Hr. Towing 9030
TOY POODLES AKC 2 Male 1 Female ready to go Tails docked, 1st shots, 1st heart guard, 1st front line. Champion sire, Dam on sight 203-881-0072 www.shamerspoodles.com 9035
PETS FOR SALE – DOGSAKC Labrador Retrievers: Pups ready for pick-up CH. Bloodlines bred for temperament, up to date on shots. Call and visit, BiGi’s Labradors. 973-993-9006 9035
PETS FOR SALE–DOGS Tawny briard puppies INTL Championship bloodlines Long Island, NY available to approved homes. Contact #631-537-5346 Website: www.briards.com
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PIANO 5ft upright/w bench, $750 Cherrywood-marble-mirror hall tree, $700, 5 pc office furniture $650, corner curio cabinet, $150 631-736-2195 9040
9040 MERCHANDISE FOR SALE-COLLECTABLES: ROSEVILLE COLLECTION 60 Pieces, All Patterns, Shapes & Sizes, Beautiful $8,000.00 + ARMOIRE – 1875 Italian, Perfect Condition, Breaks Down in (5) Sections, Elegant $8,000.00 . Contact (212) 741-3887 or (646) 267-7391
9040 COLLECTIBLES AMERICANA COLLECTION – American Mechanical Muscle:1850-2000. 140 + Die Cast Models, 200 + Plastic Kits. 98% NIB; 290+ItemDescriptive & Historical Books. $20K/OBO Contact Eric @ (860) 683-2140 Lv name, phone # & best times for callback.
COLLECTIBLES – 1961 WORLD SERIES BALL – W/signatures incl. Roger Maris, Yogi Berra, Whitely ford, etc. in box; also NASCAR. Winston Cup Poster + vintage comic books. Antique hand embroided quilts. Rare record albums. Contact 205-670-9044 9040
9040 MOVING, MUST SELL ALL! FURN, APPLIANCES, HOUSEWARES, SACRIFICE! CALL 718-450-4879
Commercial gym equipment (4), hammer strength (2) nautilus (1) cybex – 2 yrs old original cost 18K asking 8K. Call owner 516-661-9639
ISLAND PACKET 1987, 31’, 2nd owner, comfortable cruiser $54,900 631-283-6853 ESTATE SALE – WOODBURY Antique DR Table/6 chairs, other chairs, Lamps, etc. Costume Jewelry Call for appt. 646-734-3886 9040
Whole House: Contents includes 4 BR sets, living room, dining room, den and more! Excel quality. 718-757-0975
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ANTIQUES FOR SALE - Morgan Silver Dollars 1878, 1882, 1889, 1895 & 1897 609-494-0900
Machpelah Cemetary, Ridgewood, Queens NY. Two cemetery plots. Price $1000 each including Perpetual care. Call 732-657-7120
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Motorized Scooter. Lynx L3, bright red brand new, used once, battery operated, holds up to 300lbs. $800 215-499-6226
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9040 Beautiful mahogany dining room set with breakfront, 8 chairs, 2 couches, set of coffee tables, 2 end tables and console, children’s new BR set. 917-771-6669 9040 BETH ISRAEL MEMORIAL PARK: Woodbridge, NJ . 4 graves with perpetual care $1250 each or best offer. 941-320-0945 Cell or 941-535-7886
9040 Beautiful custom designer L-shaped sofa (1yr old) salmon color, two tone fabrics, seat depth 41”, Length on one side (sections) 108” (68”x40”) and 100” (60”x40) condition perfect, Original price $25,000 must sell, Asking $3,000. Contact 646-642-8666
9050 Merchandise Wanted. Buying All Diabetic Test Strips. Cash paid. Nicotine Patches/Gum. Fast NY/NJ pickup 646-400-5270
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Furniture Kew Garden Hills: Italian and French DR, BR, breakfront, Hi-riser, chandelier and Paintings. Call 917-836-0146
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9040 2011 Dimension one hot tub, brand new, 3 year warrantee, seats 6 (2 pumps) Stainless steel jets. The #1 rates hot tub for energy efficiency. Originally $8839. Sale $5997 631-681-4400
9040 DRY CLEANERS for sale in Boro Park. Asking $95K. Please call 347-585-6943 9040 Wooden Dining Room set, table with 8 chairs, china cabinet and buffet + server. Only 3 years old. Great condition. Also leopard/ wood coach 80x10 area rugs. Side tables with marble, 2 leather living room chairs etc. Call 917-364-5272
MERCHANDISE FOR SALE: 2 Knudson seemless gutter on machine 5” type hold 4 coil clean + painted $4000 – 6” seamless road 6” Gutter and 16 Flange Type $9K. Owner retiring, clean + well maintained. Factory maintenance. Contact 201-207-5533 or 201-436-0447 9040
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PIANO FOR SALE YAMAHA BABY GRAND Like New, Lightly Used $12,000.00 Contact (631)666-7439 or (516)972-6277 9040
JAZZ LOVERS! Over 1,000 jazz greatest records, excellent cond, negotiable. Ellington, Vaughn Parker, Holiday + Fitzgerald, just to name a few + Many more. Contact718-379-6401 9040
Antiques for Sale. 5 piece large bdrm set/ dining rm + China + circa 1900 Sunburst Oak, excel cond. Pieces can be sold separately. View website: http://tinyurl.com/39mo7go Click collectables + Antiques can view. Approx 37 photos/ Contact732-937-9167 9040
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9050 OLD WATCHES CLOCKS WANTED BY COLLECTOR REGARDLESS OF CONDITION HIGHEST PRICES PAID. 212-517-8725
US Coins Wanted Especially interested in Govt proof/ mint sets. Orig boxes. Rare coins / Estate Jewelry 212-642-4324 Midtown 9045
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9050 crystal chandelier service rewiring refinance cleaning looks brand new when we are thru. Howard Serotta 215-423-2234 or 368-4056 stc
HOUSE WATCHER/ N.J. I’am there when you are not. Weekly inspections of your house when you are away, Also for service calls, deliveries, installations and contractors. Experienced . retired realtor, references available. Monmouth county area. Lorraine. (609) 713-9926 Cell Lrbc73@gmail.com FA
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9050 Need either printer or fax diagnostic and repair(will gladly come to your location.) For immediate response at very reasonable rates. Call 908-444-2418 stc
9050 Baaal Tokeah, Baal Koreh and some tefilot for Yomom Noraim. Many years experience call David 718-853-4119 or 917-224-3303 stc
9050 CASH FOR FIGURINES We buy Hummels, LLadros, Royal Doultons, Wee Forest Folk, Anris, Toby Mugs & More 516-489-6004, 516-457-0130 MK
HOUSE WATCHER/ NJ I’am there when you are not. Weekly inspections of your house when You are away also for service calls, deliveries, installations, and contractors. Experienced retired realtor, ref. available. Monmouth County area. Lorraine. 609 713-9926 Lrbc73@gmail.com 9050
I am looking for my uncle’s children and grandchildren. My uncle, Stanley A. Gray lived or worked in Weehauken, New Jersey in the 1950’s and 1960’s. Please contact me at: suzysdistribution@hotmail.com
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MONTEFIORE CEMETERY 1 grave lot 187 section H Asking $9000 or best offer Call 310-246-9666
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32 foot carver sleeps 6 excelent condition low hours on motors ’86 asking 35K call owner 954-938-2685
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9050 COLLECTORS DREAM First ever 24 karat gold I oz coin minted by US gov’t in proof condition, never touched by human hands, plus other gold coins. All graded M5 Proof 69 by NGC. Also I have several silver coins 1 oz graded Proof 69 by NGC. Plus ½ dollars pre 1964. Plus valuable reprints of Ty Cobb & Lou Gerhig & many others & Action Comics #1Superman. No dealers please. Call Allen 718-474-6188
9050 MUST SELL 40 CINDY LANE OCEAN TOWNSHIP MAGNIFICENT MANTLE FOR FIREPLACE 60” ORIGINAL $4,000 MUST SELL $300. QUEEN ANNE CHAIRS $200 CARVED HAND MADE MAHOGANY CHAIRS $100. MAGNIFICENT BOOKSHELF ORGINAL $4500 NOW $600 CORNER CABINET WITH ROUNDED GLASS SHELVES ORIGINAL $2500, $300, RARE PERSIAN CARPETS AND ORIGINAL OIL PAINTINGS FRACTION OF ORIGINAL COST CALL FOR APPT 908-489-4675
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9040 Free Luxury motor Home tours on a condition of buying electronics, batteries and groceries starting price $7,000 and up plus gas and tolls. Also get a discount on the purchase of the ’85 MCI 47 passenger bus 917-216-8379 stc
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ENGLEWOOD 3BR COL NEAR HOUSE OF WORSHIP $425K 3BR CAPE UPDATED WALK ALL 499K 5BR SPLIT LARGE PROPERTY WALK 725K 3BR TONHOUSE NEAR ALL 725K AARON RE 201-569-1606 9055
9055 Passaic Park 358 Brook Avenue MIC 5BR 2.5 BTH very large LR DR Hardwood floors Huge kosher EIK opens to deck. Large backyard 2C garage finished basement/attic $649K. Near shuls/ Transportation. FSBO No agents owner has RE referral lic 973-773-2103
AC Berkley: Luxury condobuilding on boardwalk. 1BR furnished. Parking yearly. $1050/mo, pool, fitness center, WID. Call 609-335-7855 9055
9055 Margate Rancher (bold) Large lot. 2 Bedroom large seperate garage. Fenced dog run. large driveway upgrades. near boards and beach. Block and half from dog park $285,000 609-377-7109
9055 Passaic Park: Open hse, Sun 5/15 11-4; 358 Brook Ave. MIC, 5BR, 2.5bth, very lg LR/DR, H/W fls. Huge kshr EIK opens to deck. Lg bkyd, 2c gar. fin bsmt/attic $649K. Nr shuls/trans. For sale by owner. No agents, Owner has RE referral lic 973-773-2103
9055 Manalapan: True mother/daughter colonial, 2 kitchens, 2 LR, total 6 BR, 3 bths, many upgrades, lg pool, C/Vac, large lot 732-792-1143
Condos/Co ops/NJ Hoboken-$1.15 m secluded carriage house, 3 firplaces, luxury, appliance package, patio +w/trellis+hot tub, terrace 3 flrs 201-400-3986
FOR SALE, LAKEWOOD 4 CONDOS AVAILABLE 2,000-2,400 sq. ft. $335,000- $345,000 1st St. & Madison Ave. Please call for info/appt. 718-974-5550
Apartment For Rent 9060
Red Bank Downtown office space available 1350sqft. Vaulted ceilings, fios Internet. Parking available. Call Art 732-222-3553 Lakewood, NJ: 1 BR, 1.5 bth, newly renovated apt, LR, DR, EIK. Reasonably priced, near shopping and houses of worship. Call 732-904-1921 Parsippany: Lak Hiawatha-1 BR condo quiet building, 2nd flr, walk-up, updated appliances in EIK. Renovated bath, new windows, new electric, good closet, space storage bin + laundry room on-site ample parking, great nearby park and ride. 2 miles, no pets, no smoking. $875 monthly. Call 973-207-0860 Owner.
Monmouth Beach: Oceanfront, breathtaking 2 BR, 2 bth, kitch, lg LR w/dining area, huge deck, indoor/outdoor pool, 24-hr security, easy bus/ ferry commute NYC, $2500/mo 201-825-2646 Apartment for rent, NJ, 2nd floor in private house. 2 BR, Lrg LR, lrg kitchen. Includes heat & hot water, lrg closets. $1,150 201-659-5574
Apt for rent Oradel: Renov Victorian 3 BR/ LR/ DR/ EIK, 1.5 bth sun room/ 2 car gar + includes aupare apartment w/ EIK full bath/ mini kitchen/ LV Bdrm. Close to trains/ Bus. $3300.00 Contact 203-241-2243
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Middletown Township 1000 to 2150 sqft close to oxford valley mall, across from super market, Walgreens, bank immediate occupancy. Rent reduced. Must be seen. DAVID FIORI, INC. REALTORS 215-757-1000 9065
9070 New Jersey MIDDLETOWN – Rt. 36, Join CVS & P.O. in high traffic location, 1400 – 4200 S.F. 732-996-4354 9070 New Jersey JACKSON- Prof. 2 rm ofc approx. 500sf $650/mo+ elect. Private entrance 732-995-3271 9075 New Jersey FREEHOLD TWP Class “A” Office Space 400 W. Main St. 1500 s.f. (5 rms incl. kit. & recep). Elev., marble lobbies, 24-hr. access, Daily janitorial, Immed occ. 732-780-0900
9050 AC Boardwalk: Ocean Club Beautiful Decorated 1 BR 1 ½ BA 2 TVs Cable kit w/d Sleeps 6 All amenities. Monthly or Season. Call owner: 201-670-9015
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9050 NEW LISTING LAKEWOOD INDIAN PEERS 51,977 SF 22-28 CEILING HEIGHT FORLEADING 1 DRIVE IN DOCKS $95 SF PRINCIPLES ONLY 732-905-5606 OR EMAIL AT MEHGH2011@YAHOO.COM
Beth Israel Cemetery Wood bridge, NJ Burial plots. With grave sites $2,000 Must be sold together. Call 917-371-4871. 9050
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9065 Clifton Patricia Loop: Move in condition! 3BR ranch, EIK, updated full bath. $329,900 FSBO 973-220-9116 www.zillow.com
HOUSE FOR SALE , NEW JERSEY OCEAN/ DEAL / ALLENHURST AREA – Completely Renovated High End Six (6) Bedroom, Four (4) Bath Home Set on Almost One (1) acre, Shows Like New Construction! Quiet Neighborhood of High-End Homes with over 4,500 SF (+ 1,500 SF Walk Up Attic) Extensive Moldings, Amazing Floor Plan, Huge Chef Inspired Gourmet EIK W/ 12’ Vaulted Ceiling Overlooking F/R and Backyard. An Amazing Home for Entertaining both Inside & Out. Three (3) Fire Places, Two (2) Laundry Rooms, Three (3) Car Garage, 20’X 50’. Inground Pool & Maids Quarters!Around Corner from Hollywood Country Club, Beach & Numerous Houses of Worship.$995/K . Contact (732) 689-2517 9065
LOTS FOR SALE LYNWOOD, NJ 2 beautiful lots on new private cul de sac street Kassina drive one huge lot 28,000 square feet and another lot 850 square feet all utilities available drastically reduced make offer call owner 609-926-0220
9065 TOWNHOUSE FOR SALE WOODLAND PARK, N.J. 3 LEVEL RENOVATED TOWNHOUSE 3BDRMS/2 FULL BATHS AND 2 HALF BATHS. NEW CUSTOM KITCHEN WITH NEW GRANITE COUNTER TOPS/ S.S. APPLIANCES. FIRE PLACE/ L.R. MOVE IN CONDITION. NR HIGHWAYS & NYC TRAINS. $500.K CONTACT (973) 417-9638 FOR PHOTOS PLS EMAIL ROBERTVARGAS@OPTONLINE.NET
Far Hills: 14 Acres trees/ Stream BEDMINSTER Horse County. Foundation Built holds 7000 sq ft. Home Well Septic patio/pool/ spa Driveway. Contact 908-234-1743 or 908-399-2100 9065
Teaneck: Totally renov 4 BR, 2.5Bth with finished basement in prime w Engelwood location. $739K Vacant 201-483-8901
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Rockaway Township, NJ: New construction New Jersey. ( 2) story colonial. Lakefront property. Walking distance to temple. Contact 973-983-9527
Elizabeth, NJ: Historic Center: Newly renovated brick/ vinyl one family house- 8 Bedrooms/ 3 bths, family room, bonus rooms, eat-in-kitchen, new roof, siding, windows, boiler, water heater and porchhardwood floors and new carpeting -$280,000. Call owner 908-688-7262 7030
9065 Ringwood: 1 acre wooded lot, 280’ of frontage. Beautiful area. 180 Magee Rd $229K 406-522-0325
9075 Lakewood: Corner store for rent, good location. Call 732-513-9470
7065 AC WARWICK: Lg unfurn, new carpets, Ocean View. Yrly rental $1275 per month, includes utils, storage cable, prkg. 856-596-1816
Lower Makefield: 4300sqft, 2 sty French Colonial, 4 Bdrms, 4 Ba min to shopping train, hospitals, golf course…$3,250 DAVID FIORI INC. 215-757-1000 7065
Apartment For Sale 9055 Spring Lake, rent/buy, A+ condo hotel, 2 units furn, new designer décor, quality details, marble bth, custom clsts, 1 BD + LR; 1BD + Porch lake view, pool, 3 blks Beach, Zagat rest. Amp/480Volt 215-990-1252
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Residential/Commercial Howell, NJ Near Lakewood, 20,000 sq ft asking 650k. Reasonably priced! Call now Dominick 908-415-2299 or Sal 718-853-3629
175,000 Co-op Apt For Sale: Great Size Bedrooms. Too many upgrades to mentrion! Ready to move-in. Close to GWB. Call Angela 201-328-6603 9065
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8010 Loving Caring couple, both certified and licensed, wife is practical nurse and husband is seeking jobs as companion for the elderly. Handyman w/HHA Certifications. Excellent, many years experience. References available. Call 516-330-3429 Have own car.
PHILADELPHIA FOR SALE Kosher MidEastern Restaurant (due to owner’s retirement) Over 20 yrs in business Great location in Center City (downtown Philadelphia) 856-524-3384 7060
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HEWITT ESTATE FOR SALE Newly renov, new septic, 2 bldgs Occupied, 16X60’ gar, w/3br apt, 3BR, 2.5 bth, 2 LR, 2 kits on 1.3 acs, Circ dvwy, barn & 2 sheds. 10 mins ski resorts, 40 mins NYC $450K. Call owner 973-835-3916MK 9070
Teaneck: Garden apt, land 3BRs, renovated kitchen. $1150-1395 including heat and hot water, 2 blocks to NYC transit. 1 lock to kosher Shops. No fee. Call 201-836-8745
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9070 Lakewood: Corner store for rent. Good location. Call 732-513-9470
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9000 Jerusalem/ Lev Yerushalayim: 2 BR, furnishes, sleeps 6. Available 6/27 – 7/25. Reasonable, Jack 561-414-7998 jm@erspec.com
Israel Apt in Talbiah Nr Inbal short walk to kotel. 2BR 2Bth kosher W/D, A/C, sleeps 6 + short term only. Parking. 718-544-7571 stc 9000
9000 Israel Lev: Yerushalayim hotel 2BRs 2BTHS kosher kitchen terrace 972-3-673-7330 Email: arusi_ez@zahav.net.il 9000 Israel amazing professional medical masseuse reflexology deep tissue massage liberating and very relaxing treatment which will make your day call 052-325-6536 9000 Israel Rechavia, Jerusalem Beautiful new fully furnished 2BR 2BTH apt. Available short term. Washer/Dryer. Hadar 347-306-1552
Ramat Beit: Charming spacious 6T rooms, cottage spectacular view. Garden, patio, Quiet lane in amazing Anglo-Saxon modern Orthodox community 050-873-2442 or 02-586-3242 9000
9000 Israel Lev Yerushalayim renovated 1 BR furnished apt sleeps 4 all amenities available 8/22-09/26, Part of all call 937 304-4026 054-689-7803
9000 Lev Yerushalayim Hotel 2BRs 2 BTHs kosher kitchen terrace 011-972-673-7330 email arusi_ez@zahav.net.il
Talbieh: Exclusive Bartenura St. Very big 210sqm, 5 room completely renov apartment. Private garden,parking etc… $1,950,000. Serious seller. DWELL Jerusalem. 02-567-0607 Reuven 050-523-1478 We have many more properties! 9000
9000 Lev Yerushaky: Hotel, 2 BRs, 2 bths, kosher kitchen, terrace 972-3-673-7330 Email: arusi-ez@zahav.net.il
Lev Yerushalayim: Hotel. 2 BRs 2BTHS, Kosher kitchen, terrace. 972-3-673-7330 e-mail: arusi-ez@zahav.net.il 9000
9000 SPECIAL DEALS 1. King Solomon: Jerusalem & Tiberias 2. Prima Kings: Jerusalem 3.Selection of hotels throughout Israel & abroad 4.Early bird specials Grossman Tours Tel: 052-624-4733 or 052-624-8189
9000 Tallbieh: Exclusive Bartenura St. Very big 210 sqm, 5 room completely renovated apt. Private garden, parking etc, $1,950,000. Serious seller, DWELL, Jerusalem. 02-567-6607 Reuven 050-523-1478 We have many more properties!
Designer living in JERUSALEM: Beautiful 1 family house with a view to die for. You’ll never leave home, high ceilings, amazing gardens/ patio for entertaining and huge succah. Spacious LR and master bdrm suite. Big DR, full kitch, book lined den. 5 BRS, CAC, oil heat and advanced solar heating and advanced solar heating. Private covered parking. Contact owners. Michael and Sara at MikeWid@netvision.net.il or 011-972-2532-23868 9000 Beautiful apartment for sale in the old city of Jerusalem with unique view. Call 011-972-52-462-8913 or see www.apt-oldcity.com
9000 THE PREMIER CHOICE FOR JERUSALEM PROPERTY SERVICES. – Long term rentals – Short term rentals – Renovations – Buying a property assistance Shia Getter Property Management +972-77-234-6011 sg@shiagetter.com or www.shiagetter.com 9000 Kosher Services Worldwide: Malcolm Green Events from the dryer of the angl-saxon caterers for all your Glatt Kosher catering needs in Israel and throughout the Caribbean and the wider world. Call 052-244-8709 or 9-862-6442 Email: koshercaterer@yahoo.co.uk
Jerusalem: Private suite in 5 Star Ramada, sleeps up to 8. In/out pools $250/nite Albert 514-803-8838
9000
HERZILYA PITUAH. For sale, rare and wonderful villa, 10 rooms, 500/750 sq m., modern architecture, new meticulously designed and built with perfectionistic quality at the highest level possible, located in quiet and tranquil surroundings, exciting and one of a kind. 050-620-0000, zvicohen3@gmail.com
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New villa. Very high quality. Stunning 210 sqm corner center of Omer, 2 floors. 052-758-8102
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9000 All types of properties available. Looking to buy apts or invest in Israel? Many options available. Call my new number. 011-972-52-763-1845
9000 WHAT! My family in a luxurious Lev Yerushalayim Hotel Suite holiday apt (sleeps 5) best location, all amenities, daily maid for just $100/night? (7night min) Private owner Tel/Fax 011-772-8-633-4758 Zevwand@yahoo.com
Beautiful apartment for sale in the old city of Jerusalem with unique view. Call 011-972-52-462-8913 9000
9000 Jerusalem: Lux 3 BR hotel apt, 20 min walk to kotel, kit, DR, LR, pool. Avail for Pesach 347-721-7722
Retire in Jerusalem?
3.5 room unique penthouse in “Hod Jerusalem“ retirement home (self ownership - no deposit required!)
Call 972-50-5920507 firmdew@hotmail.com
Great opportunity: Lots for sale in Rosh Pina, lots for sale in Even Yehuda, also apartments for rent in Ezilya Pituach. Call 408-340-1125, 011-97-50-529-3777, 011-972-77-575-1170 irit0110@hotmai.com 9000 Jerusalem Center: 16 King George, furnishes, 3BR penthouse duplex, 2.5 bth, 4 porches, Shabbat elevator, short / long term. 718-776-3282 http://dennydaniel.com/israel
9000 Jerusalem: Best location 3 min to plaza and great synagogue, 5 min to Mamilla and 15 min to kotel, stunning 3BR luxuriously furnished balcony with stunning view, private elevator, 2 car gar. Available holidays! VIEW ONLINE: www.akivaiz.com or call owner 917-582-9441 9000 Lev Jerusalem hotel apt suite. Best location. All amenities included. Daily maid, sleeps 4. Reduced $120/Day (5 day minimum). Private owner. Tel/fax 011-972-8-633-4758 zerwand@yahoo.com
9000 Ramot Beit: Charming spacious 6+ rooms cottage spectacular view, garden patio, quiet lane, in amazing anglo-saxon, modern Orthodox community! 050-873-2442 or 02-586-3242
9000 Haifa: Luxurious, new, 8-room house in Alonei Abba (15mins from Haia), option for 2 separate units for clinic/office/ dwelling. Immediate. Tel 052-220-0207
ww.perfectvilla,info NUMBER ONE VILLA ISRAEL Herziliya Pituach Luxury unique villa prime location seaview 100/square meter built 8 million euro. 972-3-549-7810 9000
Jerusalem Center: 16 King George, furnished, 3BR penthouse duplex. 2.5 bth, 4 porches, Shabbat elevator, short term/ long term. 718-776-3882 http://dennydaniel.com/Israel/ 9000
Jerusalem: in a central prime location at 60 Jaffa Street apt for rent! On then new light right pedestrian mall route, cute 2 room apartments in a new building, fully furnished, AC, lift, wireless wi-fi, for long + short term. Within short walking distance to primary sites. (Kotel, Geula, Machine Yehua market) Frank 0505-344478 Wise 0505-34448 9000
NEGOTIATOR: EXPERIENCED NEGOTIATOR AVAIABLE TO REPRESENT YOU ANYWHERE IN ISRAEL. CALL TOLL FREE. CONSULTATION 052-773-0076 9000 REAL ESTATE IN ISRAEL. INVESTMENT AND MANAGEMENT. MORTGAGES FROM 7096 AND UP. Simcha Teitelhaum 917-474-7440 simchatb@gmail.com
Luxury rentals for short/ long term in Herzelia. The apartments are furnished and newly renovated. They are avail for individuals or families. Call 011-972-54-942-1444 or www.99yafit.com
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9000 DESIGNER LIVING IN JERUSALEM: Beautiful 1-family house with a view to die for. You’ll never leave home. High ceilings. Amazing gardens/ patio for entertaining and huge succah. Spacious living room and master bdrm suite. Big dining rm. Full kitchen, book-lined den, five bdrms. Ctrl AC, oil heat and advanced solar heating. Private covered parking. Contact Owners – Michael and Sara at mikewid@netviosion.net.il or 011-972-2-5322-868
9000 Talbeih: Exclusive Bartenura St: Very big 210 sqm, 5 rms completely renovated apartment. Private garden, parking etc. $1,950,000. Serious seller. DWELL, JERUSALEM. 02-567-0607 Reuven 050-523-1478. We have many more properties.
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Florida Real Estate
For Sale
9080
Palm Coast, FL For sale by owner, asking $179K 14 Woodglen Pl, 4 Bd, 2 full baths, pool, cul de sac, golf, beach, shops, rests. 386-446-9032 https://sites.google.com/sit e/14woodglenplace/ 9080
9080 MIDDLETOWN TOWNSHIP: 1000 to 2150sqft Close to Oxford Valley Mall, Across from supermarket, Walgreens, Bank. Imm Occupancy. Rent Reduced. Must be seen. DAVID FIORI, INC. REALTORS 215-757-1000
ADULT COMMUNITIES. FL, FORT MYERS 0.9%. 10year Fixed Rate (1.41% apr) NEW HOMES from the $160’s 55+ Active Adult CALL 239-6898790 or visit www.55PlusMyCascades.com 9080
9080 FLORIDA PALM COAST, FL. FOR SALE : 2500 SQ FT 2BDRM / 2BATH (Possibly 3rd BR), Granite Counter Tops, New Appliances, on Wide Canal, Owner Retiring $334,000.00. Email dsenne5318@aol.com or (904) 591-3136
AS IS REAL ESTATE INC. WE ARE LOOKING TO BUY RESIDENTIAL & COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE 909 E29ST, UNIT #4K BROOKLYN, NY 11210 WWW.AS-IS-REALTY.COM Tel: 718-252-0141 Fax 347-713-4241
9080
Margate/Ventnor Beautiful home 3 houses off beach 4BR 3 full baths magnificent view. Elegant furnishings, no pets no smoking. Great location. Close to restaurants. July 6 – August 5th Available September – May 2012 9 month lease. Asking $990/mo Call 856-663-0671 9080
9080 Central Florida. Very private Estate Site 240 acres. Mile from paved road surrounded by Gov’t property, one well/ 2 barns / 3 stocked fishing ponds. 24x24ft, sleeping quarters. Abundant Wildlife. Contact 407886-4922 Email: Kenggn@hotmail.com
Boca Raton, FL: CC/4Golf courses-2b/2b furnished, 1st flr condo, 1,250+ sq ft, All golf view/ Ask $67,000 + Equity. SAMJ121@aol.com Call 561-479-2841 9080
Vacation condo/delray beach magnificent new 55+ community Beautifully furnished 1 BD Great location Beachfront shopping reasonable dec thru march or dec and jan or feb and mar 215-576-0559 9085
MIAMI BEACH (OLD) COLLINS AVENUE BEACHFRONT 2 LARGE BRS 7TH FLOOR, BALCONY 305-866-5581 9085
Main Line Valley Forge Reduced from 2.5 million to 1.9million 6400 sf 3.91ac 4/3.5 Private Gated Driveway 2000 sf Decks and Stone Patios, 4 fireplace, wine cellar, kitchen, DR, LR Great Room, exercise, library, billiard rooms, 3 car garage. 215-783-3122 www.huffequities.com
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Central FL. Land with Greenhouses, 20 acres deeded (some in lake) Highway + lake frontage. Business w/nice lake front. Home site, low real estate tax/ Low sales tax. No state income tax. Zone for park recreation/ Church/ Synagogue. Can be changed to suit. Contact Ken 407-886-4922 Email:Kenggn@hotmail.com 9080
Tampa Triple Net Lease: Quick lube, 649K Cap 8.25% strong tenant, 13+yr left. 10% incrs 813-546-2766
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9080 Condo for sale Boca Raton: 55+ community with active clubhouse + theater, swimming, pools, gym, tennis courts + (2) synagogues. 2 BDRM/ 1 ½ Bth completely renovated, all tile, custom counter tops. New bathroom, $65K Contact Marty 914-953-8988 Will email pictures.
North Myrtle Beach for sale1 bdrm, 1 bth, pool. Asking $85,000 Call: 718-661-1286
9080 Palm Beach, FL: REDUCED PRICE for this INTOWN PRIVATE PARADISE. 3BR/4.5BA townhouse featuring 3851SF, elevator to luxurious master suite. Bonus room EIK, pool. 2 car gar. Close to beach. $1.499M. Walking distance to shul. Stan Gordon 917-864-5321
FLORIDA REAL ESTATE The following propertied are located in Clearwater area, near Gulf of Mexico. For more information, or pictures, on any of the 3 properties, call Virgil at 727-410-1205
Real Estate
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Immaculate townhouse two blocks from beach. 2 BR/2bth, fireplace. 2 car garage, furnishing included. Reduced to $209,900 Attractive “Florida” 2BR/2bth home. 4 minutes to bch. Screened lanai. Orange trees. 30 golf courses in 30 miles. $237,000. One BR/1 bath condo. Safe neighborhood. Walk to restaurants, grocery, hospital, etc. five minutes to bch. Reduced to $39,900 9080 Florida: 52ac Riverfront/Equestarian lot St. Johns County www.flriverfront.blogspot.com 904-860-4500
Lot For Sale on Lake Forest, at West Colligan Lake, Poconos/PA. Private community where you can enjoy many activities ranging from indoor/outdoor pool, tennis court & much more. Financing available with down payment. 10% discount for members! Call 917-843-9068 9080
9080 Hollywood Beach Florida: Oceanfront Trump Condo, 3 BR/ 3.5 BA, new ad beautiful $1,350,000 786-390-7340
8 acres for sale Levy County, FL. SR-24 – Approx 15 miles W of Gainsville. 1200ft of highway frontage. Power + water throughout the 8 acres. ½ grass/ ½ large oak trees. Very beautiful, must see to appreciate $180K OBO. Call 352-495-9810 9080
9080 INVESTMENT PROPERTY. Temple Triple Net Lease quicklube, 649K, Cap 8.25% strong tenant, 13+ yr left, 10% incrs 813-546-2766
Boca Raton: Century Village, 5 BR, mins to Miami Beach, beaut 2 BRs, 1.5bths. Excel kept facilities, extras incl pool, gym, tennis etc. 305-308-8517 CONDO FOR SALE. Miami Beach, The Alexander, 5225 Collins. Newly renov all marble 2 BR, 2 bth. Spectacular south side Ocean Bay view. All new SS appliances, closets & wsh/dryr. 516-369-0419 9080
9080 Lauderhill, FL: Luxurious 3BR, 2 bth in gated community. Dbl car garage, 2000sf, newly renov. Ceramic tiles. $189K neg. owner 954-552-4520
2 luxury condos each with 2 bedrooms + 2 bathrooms, one in Boca Raton for $79,900 one in Boynton Beach $119K 802-782-0721
For Rent
9085
Miami Beach: Tower 41 Furnished 1BR apt available for high holidays and succot and year round. Call owner 305-333-5864 or 305-672-1770 stc 9090 COMMERCIAL PROPERTY FOR LEASE, FLORIDA: HUNTING LEASE 16,000 AC LEASE. Complete with Lodge, Cabins, Tennis Skeet/Trap, Sauna. Exclusive Quail Hunting Courses with Kennels & Buggies. Beautiful Native Florida Land. Contact (863)441-2922
9085 For sale: One of the largest Glatt kosher supermarkets in southeast FL. Catering, butcher, deli, produce dept. huge potential. 561-317-0274
9085 Miami Beach: Beautiful newly renovated apt in tower 41. Bay view with balcony and gorgeous view of downtown Miami, 1 spacious BR with master bath newly furnished DR/LR area w/guest bath, state of the bed. Call 917-838-1528
9085 Miami Beach 41st/ Alton: 6th FL, 1BR, 1.5Bth, furnished condo for rent or sale. Large LR and porch, beautiful view near shuls, shopping Transportation and more! Call 914-522-4636
BRADENTON, FLORIDA Condo Rental, (2) BDRM, (2) BATH, Furnished, Age 55+, No Pets, Includes Pool, Tennis, W/D, A/C, Elevator, Car Port & Bird Sanctuary. Western View of Sarasota Bay. Annual $1,000. Per Month or Seasonal (Min. (3) Months ) $2500.00. Available Aug. 1st. Contact (941) 761-4098 9085
9085 Miami Beach: Collins Ave/ 36th St, beautiful 3.5 room condo ready for pesach, 2 bath, Porch facing ocean. 305-534-6706
RESTAURANT FOR SALE
Very successful restaurant in Hollywood, Florida. Asking 500K Call owner 954-809-5998 Not on Shabbat
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